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Four Great Lakes are shared by Canada and the United States

Lake Ontario with Toronto’s distant skyline, viewed from Queen’s Royal Park in Niagara-on-the-Lake in 2021; one Great Lake, not a boundary map.
Lake Ontario with Toronto’s distant skyline, viewed from Queen’s Royal Park in Niagara-on-the-Lake in 2021; one Great Lake, not a boundary map. Toronto skyline viewed from Queen's Royal Park · APK · Photo source · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.
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The Great Lakes are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario. Canada and the United States share four of them; Lake Michigan lies entirely within the United States.

Scope & context

The five named lakes, not the whole watershed.

Sources behind this record

1
About Lake Michigan ↗

Indiana Department of Environmental Management

Five Great Lakes; Michigan entirely in United States

2
Role of Canada’s Transportation Network ↗

Transport Canada

Great Lakes and St. Lawrence waterway