Great Lakes

The Great Lakes are an important water system of for transportation, commerce, and recreation; they lie mostly on the border between the United States of America and .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Lake Ontario and Lake Erie Islands.

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is one of the Great Lakes on the border between the United States of America and . Sequentially the last of the lakes, Ontario is the smallest by surface area and second-smallest in size.

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The are in Lake Erie, one of the five Great Lakes in and serve as a major tourist, resort or summer home destination. Comprising islands which belong to either on the southern US side or on the northern side, the islands are accessible via ferry boat from a number of locations.
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Great Lakes

Latitude of center
45.6875° or 45° 41′ 15″ north
Longitude of center
-84.4375° or 84° 26′ 15″ west
Elevation
177 metres (581 feet)
Geo­Names ID
4994594
Wiki­data ID
Q7347
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Satellite Map

Discover Great Lakes from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Great Lakes” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Groot Mere”
  • Albanian: “Liqenet e Mëdha”
  • Amharic: “ታላላቁ ሀይቆች”
  • Arabic: “البحيرات الخمس العظمى”
  • Arabic: “البحيرات العظمى”
  • Arabic: “البحيرات الكبرى”
  • Arabic: “بحيرات عظمى (أمريكا الشمالية)”
  • Arabic: “بحيرات عظمى (أمريكا الشماليه)”
  • Arabic: “بحيرات عظمى (كندا)”
  • Arabic: “بحيرات كبرى”
  • Aragonese: “Grans Lacos d’America d’o Norte”
  • Armenian: “Մեծ լճեր”
  • Armenian: “Մեծ Լճեր”
  • Assamese: “বৃহৎ হ্ৰদসমূহ”
  • Asturian: “Grandes Llagos”
  • Azerbaijani: “Böyük göllər”
  • Azerbaijani: “Böyük Göllər”
  • Bashkir: “Бөйөк күлдәр”
  • Basque: “Aintzira Handiak”
  • Basque: “Amerikako Aintzira Handiak”
  • Bavarian: “Grousse Seen”
  • Belarusian: “Вялікія азёры”
  • Bengali: “বৃহৎ হ্রদসমূহ”
  • Bhojpuri: “ग्रेट लेक्स”
  • Bhojpuri: “बड़की झील”
  • Bhojpuri: “बिसाल झील”
  • Bosnian: “Velika jezera”
  • Breton: “Lennoù Meur Amerika”
  • Bulgarian: “Големите езера”
  • Burmese: “ဂရိတ်လိတ်”
  • Catalan: “Grans Llacs d’Amèrica del Nord”
  • Catalan: “Grans Llacs”
  • Central Kurdish: “دەریاچە گەورەکان”
  • Chechen: “Даккхий Ӏаьмнаш”
  • Chechen: “Доккхий Ӏаьмнаш”
  • Chinese: “Gō͘-toā-ô͘”
  • Chinese: “五大湖”
  • Chuvash: “Мăн кӳлĕсем”
  • Cornish: “An Lynnyn Meur”
  • Cornish: “Lynnyn Meur Amerika”
  • Corsican: “Grandi Lavi”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Büyük göller”
  • Croatian: “Velika jezera”
  • Czech: “Velká jezera”
  • Danish: “Store søer”
  • Dutch: “Grote Meren”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البحيرات العظيمه”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بحيرات عظيمه”
  • Esperanto: “Grandaj Lagoj”
  • Estonian: “Suur järvistu”
  • Faroese: “Stóruvøtn”
  • Fiji Hindi: “North America ke barraa talaab”
  • Finnish: “Isotjärvet”
  • Finnish: “Pohjois-Amerikan Isotjärvet”
  • Finnish: “Suuret järvet”
  • French: “Grands Lacs d’Amérique du Nord”
  • French: “Grands Lacs”
  • Galician: “Grandes Lagos, América do Norte”
  • Georgian: “დიდი ტბები”
  • German: “Great Lakes”
  • German: “Grosse Seen”
  • German: “Große Seen”
  • Greek: “Μεγάλες Λίμνες”
  • Guarani: “Yvate Amérika Ypa Guasukuéra”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Gran Lak (Amérik di Nò)”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Gran Lak”
  • Hebrew: “הימות הגדולות”
  • Hindi: “विशाल झीलें”
  • Hungarian: “Nagy-tavak”
  • Icelandic: “Vötnin miklu”
  • Ido: “Granda Lagi”
  • Iloko: “Nalatak a Dandanaw”
  • Indonesian: “Danau-Danau Besar”
  • Interlingua: “Grande Lacos”
  • Irish: “Na Lochanna Móra”
  • Italian: “Grandi Laghi”
  • Japanese: “五大湖”
  • Kabardian: “Псыхъуреишхуэхэр”
  • Kabiyè: “Amerika nɛ hayi kiŋ kujomiŋ”
  • Kabyle: “Igelmimen imeqqranen”
  • Kabyle: “Igelmimen Imeqranen”
  • Kannada: “ಅಮೇರಿಕಾದ ಮಹಾಸರೋವರಗಳು”
  • Kannada: “ಮಹಾ ಸರೋವರಗಳು”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Ullı kóller”
  • Kazakh: “Ұлы көлдер”
  • Kirghiz: “Улуу көлдөр”
  • Korean: “오대호”
  • Kurdish: “Golên Mezin”
  • Ladin: “Gragn Lec”
  • Latin: “Lacus Magni”
  • Latvian: “Lielie ezeri”
  • Limburgan: “Groeate Maere”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Lagos Grande”
  • Lithuanian: “Didieji ežerai”
  • Lojban: “banli lalxu”
  • Low German: “Grote Seen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Grouss Séien (Nordamerika)”
  • Luxembourgish: “Grouss Séien”
  • Macedonian: “Големи Езера”
  • Maithili: “विशाल तालसभ”
  • Malagasy: “Farihy Lehibe (Amerika Avaratra)”
  • Malagasy: “Farihy Lehibe”
  • Malay: “Tasik-Tasik Besar Amerika”
  • Malay: “Tasik-Tasik Besar”
  • Malayalam: “മഹാതടാകങ്ങൾ”
  • Marathi: “ग्रेट लेक्स”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gō͘-toā-ô͘”
  • Mingrelian: “დიდი ტობეფი”
  • Mingrelian: “კაბეტი ტობეფი”
  • Mirandese: “Grandes Lagos”
  • Mongolian: “Их нуурууд”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “الضايات لكبار”
  • Nepali: “विशाल ताल”
  • Nepali: “विशाल तालहरू”
  • Newari: “ग्रेट लेक”
  • Newari: “ग्रेत लेक्स”
  • Northern Frisian: “Grat Sian”
  • Northern Sami: “Stuorra jávrrit”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “De store sjøer”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dei store sjøane”
  • Norwegian: “De store sjøer”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Grands Lacs”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܝܡܡܬܐ ܪܘܪܒܬܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Micelum Merum Norðamerices”
  • Ossetian: “Стыр цæдтæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਹਾਨ ਝੀਲਾਂ”
  • Persian: “دریاچه‌های بزرگ”
  • Piemontese: “Grand Lagh”
  • Piemontese: “Ij Grand Lagh”
  • Polish: “Wielkie Jeziora Północnoamerykańskie”
  • Polish: “Wielkie Jeziora”
  • Portuguese: “Grandes Lagos da América do Norte”
  • Romanian: “Marile Lacuri”
  • Russia Buriat: “Ехэ нуурнууд”
  • Russian: “Великие американские озёра”
  • Russian: “Великие озёра”
  • Russian: “Великие североамериканские озёра”
  • Rusyn: “Великы озера”
  • Samogitian: “Dėdlė̅jė ežerā”
  • Scots: “Great Lochs”
  • Serbian: “Велика језера”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Velika jezera”
  • Sindhi: “وڏيون ڍنڍون”
  • Slovak: “Veľké kanadské jazerá”
  • Slovenian: “Velika jezera”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بؤیوک گؤللر”
  • Spanish: “Grandes Lagos”
  • Swahili: “Maziwa makubwa ya Amerika Kaskazini”
  • Swahili: “Maziwa makuu ya Amerika Kaskazini”
  • Swedish: “Stora sjöarna”
  • Swiss German: “Großi See”
  • Tachelhit: “Iglmamn mqqurnin”
  • Tagalog: “Gran Lagos”
  • Tagalog: “Mga Malalaking Lawa”
  • Tamil: “அமெரிக்கப் பேரேரிகள்”
  • Tatar: “Бөек күлләр”
  • Telugu: “మహా సరస్సులు”
  • Thai: “เกรตเลกส์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Große Seen”
  • Turkish: “Büyük Göller”
  • Turkmen: “Beýik köller”
  • Udmurt: “Быдӟым тыос”
  • Ukrainian: “Великі озера”
  • Ukrainian: “Великі Озера”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Wulke jězory”
  • Urdu: “عظیم جھیلیں”
  • Uzbek: “Buyuk koʻllar”
  • Venetian: “Grandi Laghi de l’Amèrica”
  • Venetian: “Grandi Laghi de la Merica”
  • Veps: “Sured järved”
  • Vietnamese: “Năm Hồ Lớn”
  • Vietnamese: “Ngũ Đại Hồ”
  • Võro: “Suur järvistü”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dagko nga mga Danaw”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mga Dumagko nga Danaw”
  • Welsh: “Y Llynnoedd Mawr”
  • Western Frisian: “Grutte Marren”
  • Western Panjabi: “وڈیاں جھیلاں”
  • Wu Chinese: “五大湖”
  • Yakut: “Улуу күөллэр”
  • Yiddish: “גרויסע אזערעס”
  • Yue Chinese: “五大湖”
  • “Dėdlė̄jė ežerā”
  • “Granne Laghe”
  • “Lèg grand”
  • “Q7347”
  • “Suur järvistü”
  • “telo suli pi ma Amelika lete”
  • “ग्रेट लेक्स”

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