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The Great Lakes are a group of five freshwater lakes in North America on the border between the USA and Canada. Superior is so called because it is higher upstream that the others. Huron takes its name from the name French settlers gave to a local Indian tribe (from hure, a boar’s head). No one knows where the name Michigan comes from, but Erie and Ontario are both from the Iroquois language. Erie means cat, the animal the tribe used as its symbol. Ontario simply means beautiful lake.

1 Superior, Canada/USA –82,414 sq km

2 Huron, Canada/USA –59,596 sq km

3 Michigan, USA –58,016 sq km

4 Erie, Canada/USA –25,719 sq km

5 Ontario, Canada/USA –19,477 sq km

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