Lake Erie

Lake Erie is the fourth-largest by surface area of the five in and the eleventh-largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and also has the shortest average water residence time.
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  • Type: Lake
  • Description: one of the Great Lakes in North America
  • Also known as: Erie

Lake Erie

Latitude
42.2501° or 42° 15′ 0″ north
Longitude
-80.99973° or 80° 59′ 59″ west
Elevation
172 metres (564 feet)
Open location code
86JX7222+24
Geo­Names ID
6048360
Wiki­data ID
Q5492
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lake Erie” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Eriemeer
  • Albanian: Liqeni Erie
  • Arabic: بحيرة إري
  • Arabic: بحيرة إيري
  • Armenian: Էրի լիճ
  • Asturian: Llagu Erie
  • Azerbaijani: Eri gölü
  • Bashkir: Эри
  • Basque: Erie
  • Bavarian: Eriesee
  • Belarusian: возера Эры
  • Belarusian: Эры (возера)
  • Belarusian: Эры
  • Bengali: ইরি হ্রদ
  • Bosnian: Erie
  • Breton: Lenn Erie
  • Bulgarian: Ери
  • Catalan: Erie
  • Catalan: llac Erie
  • Catalan: Llac Erie
  • Cebuano: Lake Erie (lanaw sa Canada)
  • Cebuano: Lake Erie
  • Chinese: Erie Ô͘
  • Chinese: 伊利湖
  • Chuvash: Эри
  • Croatian: Erie
  • Czech: Erijské jezero
  • Danish: Lake Erie
  • Dimli (individual language): Dola Erie
  • Dutch: Eriemeer
  • Egyptian Arabic: بحيره ارى
  • Esperanto: Eria Lago
  • Estonian: Erie järv
  • Faroese: Erievatn
  • Fiji Hindi: Erie Talaab
  • Finnish: Eriejärvi
  • French: lac Érié
  • French: Lac Érié
  • Galician: Lago Erie
  • Georgian: ერი (ტბა)
  • Georgian: ერის ტბა
  • German: Erie-See
  • German: Eriesee
  • Greek: Λίμνη Ήρι
  • Hebrew: אגם אירי
  • Hebrew: אירי
  • Hebrew: ימת אירי
  • Hebrew: נחל אירי
  • Hindi: इरी झील
  • Hindi: ईरी झील
  • Hungarian: Erie-tó
  • Icelandic: Erie-vatn
  • Inari Sami: Eriejävri
  • Indonesian: Danau Erie
  • Interlingua: Laco Erie
  • Irish: Loch Erie
  • Italian: lago Erie
  • Italian: Lago Erie
  • Japanese: エリー湖
  • Kabyle: Agelmim Erie
  • Kazakh: Эри
  • Kölsch: Eriesee
  • Korean: 이리호
  • Kurdish: Gola Erie
  • Lao: ທະເລສາບເອຣິເອ
  • Latin: Lacus Eriarum
  • Latin: Lacus Erieus
  • Latvian: Ēri ezers
  • Limburgan: Eriemaer
  • Lithuanian: Eris
  • Luxembourgish: Erieséi
  • Macedonian: Ири
  • Maithili: इरी ताल
  • Malagasy: Farihy Erie
  • Malay: Tasik Erie
  • Malayalam: ഈറി തടാകം
  • Marathi: ईरी सरोवर
  • Mazanderani: ایری
  • Min Nan Chinese: Erie Ô͘
  • Mingrelian: ერი (ტობა)
  • Mingrelian: ერი
  • Moroccan Arabic: ضاية إيري
  • Nepali: इरी ताल
  • Newari: एरी पुखू
  • Northern Sami: Eriejávri
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Eriesjøen
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Eriesjøen
  • Norwegian: Eriesjøen
  • Occitan (post 1500): Lac Erie
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܝܡܬܐ ܕܐܝܪܝ
  • Ossetian: Эри
  • Panjabi: ਈਰੀ ਝੀਲ
  • Persian: دریاچه ایری
  • Piemontese: Lagh Erie
  • Polish: Erie
  • Polish: Jezioro Erie
  • Polish: Lac Érié
  • Polish: Lake Erie
  • Portuguese: Lago Erie
  • Portuguese: Lago Erié
  • Quechua: Erie qucha
  • Romanian: Lacul Erie
  • Russian: озеро Эри
  • Russian: Эри (озеро)
  • Russian: Эри
  • Scots: Loch Erie
  • Scottish Gaelic: Loch Erie
  • Serbian: Ири
  • Serbian: Језеро Ири
  • Serbo-Croatian: Erie
  • Serbo-Croatian: Jezero Erie
  • Skolt Sami: Eriejäuʹrr
  • Slovak: Erijské jazero
  • Slovenian: Eriejsko jezero
  • Spanish: Erie
  • Spanish: Lago Erie
  • Swahili: Erie
  • Swedish: Eriesjön
  • Tamil: ஈரீ ஏரி
  • Thai: ทะเลสาบอิรี
  • Thai: ทะเลสาบเออรี่
  • Turkish: Erie Gölü
  • Ukrainian: Ері
  • Urdu: جھیل ایری
  • Uzbek: Eri
  • Venetian: lago Erie
  • Vietnamese: hồ Erie
  • Vietnamese: Hồ Erie
  • Võro: Erie järv
  • Waray (Philippines): Danaw Erie
  • Welsh: Llyn Erie
  • Western Frisian: Earymar
  • Western Panjabi: جھیل ایری
  • Wu Chinese: 伊利湖
  • Yue Chinese: 伊利湖
  • Erie järv
  • telo Iwi

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