What is the name of the group of five lakes near the US Canada border?
What is the name of the group of five lakes near the US Canada border? The Great Lakes are a chain of deep freshwater lakes in east-central North America comprising the lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario.
Which is the largest of the 5 Great Lakes in Canada?
Lake Superior is the largest of the Great Lakes and ranks as the second largest lake in the world (by surface area).
Are all five of the Great Lakes half in Canada and half in the United States?
Four of the lakes straddle the boundary between Canada and the United States. Only Lake Michigan lies wholly inside the United States. Of the total Great Lakes area—nearly 95,000 square miles (245,000 square kilometers)—the United States has about 60,000 square miles (155,000 square kilometers).
What is the only US state to border both an ocean and a Great Lake?
New York has coasts on both the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean. Smaller border lakes such as Lake Champlain or Lake of the Woods are not counted.
What is the only Great Lake that is entirely in the United States?
Lake Michigan, the second largest Great Lake (by volume) and fifth largest lake in the world (by surface area), is a globally significant ecosystem. Stretching over 300 miles, it is the only Great Lake located entirely within the United States.