Lake Erie
Lake Erie is the fourth-largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: one of the Great Lakes in North America
- Also known as: “Erie”
Lake Erie
- Category: body of water
- Location: Canada, North America
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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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