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Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario is one of the on the border between the and . Sequentially the last of the lakes, Ontario is the smallest by surface area and second-smallest in size.
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  • Type: Lake
  • Description: one of the Great Lakes in North America
  • Also known as: “Ontario”

Lake Ontario

Latitude
43.75012° or 43° 45′ 0″ north
Longitude
-77.99951° or 77° 59′ 58″ west
Elevation
74 metres (243 feet)
Open location code
87M4Q222+25
Geo­Names ID
6048611
Wiki­data ID
Q1062
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Satellite Map

Discover Lake Ontario from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lake Ontario” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Ontariomeer”
  • Amharic: “ኦንታሪዮ ሃይቅ”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة أونتاريو”
  • Armenian: “Օնտարիո լիճ”
  • Asturian: “llagu Ontario”
  • Asturian: “Llagu Ontario”
  • Atikamekw: “ontario sipi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ontario gölü”
  • Bashkir: “Онтарио”
  • Basque: “Ontario”
  • Belarusian: “Антарыа”
  • Belarusian: “Антарыё (возера)”
  • Belarusian: “Антарыё”
  • Belarusian: “возера Антарыа”
  • Belarusian: “возера Антарыё”
  • Bhojpuri: “ओंटेरियो झील”
  • Bhojpuri: “ओंटैरियो झील”
  • Bhojpuri: “लेक ओंटेरियो”
  • Bosnian: “Ontario”
  • Breton: “lenn Ontario”
  • Breton: “Lenn Ontario”
  • Bulgarian: “Онтарио”
  • Catalan: “llac Ontario”
  • Catalan: “Llac Ontario”
  • Catalan: “Ontario”
  • Cebuano: “Lake Ontario”
  • Central Kurdish: “دەریاچەی ئانتاریۆ”
  • Chinese: “安大略湖”
  • Chuvash: “Онтарио”
  • Corsican: “Lavu Ontario”
  • Corsican: “Lavu Ontariu”
  • Croatian: “Ontario”
  • Czech: “Ontarijské jezero”
  • Czech: “Ontario”
  • Danish: “Lake Ontario”
  • Dutch: “Lake Ontario”
  • Dutch: “Ontariomeer”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بحيرة اونتاريو”
  • Esperanto: “Lago Ontario”
  • Esperanto: “Ontaria Lago”
  • Esperanto: “Ontario”
  • Estonian: “Ontario järv”
  • Faroese: “Ontariovatn”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Ontario Talaab”
  • Finnish: “Ontariojärvi”
  • French: “lac Ontario”
  • French: “Lac Ontario”
  • French: “Ontario”
  • Galician: “Lago Ontario”
  • Georgian: “ონტარიო”
  • Georgian: “ონტარიოს ტბა”
  • German: “Lake Ontario”
  • German: “Ontariosee”
  • Greek: “Λίμνη Οντάριο”
  • Hebrew: “ימת אונטריו”
  • Hindi: “ओण्टारियो झील”
  • Hindi: “ओन्टारियो झील”
  • Hungarian: “Ontario-tó”
  • Icelandic: “Ontaríó-vatn”
  • Indonesian: “Danau Ontario”
  • Interlingua: “Laco Ontario”
  • Irish: “Loch Ontario”
  • Italian: “lago Ontario”
  • Italian: “Lago Ontario”
  • Japanese: “オンタリオ湖”
  • Javanese: “Tlaga Ontario”
  • Kabyle: “Agelmim Ontario”
  • Kazakh: “Онтарио”
  • Kirghiz: “Онтарио”
  • Korean: “온타리오 호”
  • Korean: “온타리오호”
  • Kurdish: “Gola Ontario”
  • Latin: “Andiatrocus Lacus”
  • Latin: “Lacus Ontario”
  • Latin: “Lacus Ontarius”
  • Latvian: “Ontārio ezers”
  • Limburgan: “Ontariomaer”
  • Lithuanian: “Ontarijo ežeras”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ontarioséi”
  • Macedonian: “Онтарио”
  • Maithili: “ओन्टारिओ ताल”
  • Malagasy: “Farihy Ontario”
  • Malay: “Tasik Ontario”
  • Malayalam: “ഒണ്ടാറിയോ തടാകം”
  • Marathi: “ऑन्टारियो सरोवर”
  • Mazanderani: “Ontareyo”
  • Mazanderani: “اونتاریو دریاچه”
  • Mazanderani: “اونتاریو”
  • Mingrelian: “ონტარიო (ტობა)”
  • Mingrelian: “ონტარიო”
  • Mongolian: “Онтарио нуур”
  • Nepali: “ओन्टारिओ ताल”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ontariosjøen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ontariosjøen”
  • Norwegian: “Ontariosjøen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “lac Ontàrio”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lac Ontàrio”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܝܡܬܐ ܕܐܘܢܛܪܝܘ”
  • Ossetian: “Онтарио (цад)”
  • Ossetian: “Онтарио”
  • Panjabi: “ਓਂਟਾਰਿਓ ਝੀਲ”
  • Panjabi: “ਓਂਟਾਰੀਓ ਝੀਲ”
  • Persian: “دریاچه انتاریو”
  • Piemontese: “Lagh Ontario”
  • Polish: “Jezioro Ontario”
  • Polish: “Ontario”
  • Portuguese: “Lago Ontário”
  • Quechua: “Ontario qucha”
  • Romanian: “Lacul Ontario”
  • Russian: “озеро Онтарио”
  • Russian: “Онтарио (озеро)”
  • Russian: “Онтарио”
  • Rusyn: “Онтарио (озеро)”
  • Rusyn: “Онтарио”
  • Scots: “Loch Ontario”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Loch Ontario”
  • Serbian: “Језеро Онтарио”
  • Serbian: “Онтарио (језеро)”
  • Serbian: “Онтарио”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jezero Ontario”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ontario”
  • Sicilian: “Lacu Ontariu”
  • Slovak: “Ontárijské jazero”
  • Slovenian: “Ontarijsko jezero”
  • Spanish: “Lago Ontario”
  • Swahili: “Ziwa Ontario”
  • Swedish: “Ontariosjön”
  • Tamil: “ஒண்டாரியோ ஏரி”
  • Telugu: “ఒంటారియో సరస్సు”
  • Thai: “ทะเลสาบออนแทรีโอ”
  • Turkish: “Ontario Gölü”
  • Ukrainian: “Онтаріо”
  • Urdu: “جھیل انٹاریو”
  • Uzbek: “Ontario”
  • Venetian: “lago Ontario”
  • Vietnamese: “Hồ Ontario”
  • Võro: “Ontario järv”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Danaw Ontario”
  • Welsh: “Llyn Ontario”
  • Western Armenian: “Օնթարիօ լիճ”
  • Western Frisian: “Ontario-mar”
  • Western Frisian: “Ontariomar”
  • Western Panjabi: “جھیل انٹاریو”
  • Wu Chinese: “安大略湖”
  • Yue Chinese: “安大略湖”
  • “Ontario järv”

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Lake Ontario”. Photo: Pomakis, CC BY-SA 4.0.