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From Lake Michigan to the Okefenokee Swamp in Louisiana the United States lakes and swamps are vary in size and location.
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Pend Oreille Lake, a lake in northern Idaho. It is the largest lake in the state, with a length of 40 miles (65 km), an average width of 4 miles (6 km), a maximum depth of 1,200 feet (366 m), and a surface area of 148 square miles (383 km2). See more »
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Dismal Swamp
Dismal Swamp, also Great Dismal Swamp, a coastal swamp in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina.
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Flathead Lake, the largest natural lake in Montana. It lies in northwestern Montana, between Kalispell and Polson.
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Great Salt Lake, a large saline lake in northwestern Utah. It lies near Salt Lake City between the Wasatch Range and the Great Salt Lake Desert and receives the waters of the Bear, Jordan, and Weber rivers.
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Agassiz, Lake, a prehistoric glacial lake of North America. It existed near the end of the Pleistocene Epoch, or Ice Age.
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Bonneville, Lake, a prehistoric freshwater lake that once covered northwestern Utah and adjoining parts of Idaho and Nevada.
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Champlain, Lake, a long, narrow lake forming most of the boundary between New York and Vermont and extending a short distance into Quebec.
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Erie, Lake, fourth largest of the five Great Lakes of east-central North America.
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George, Lake, a lake in northeastern New York. It is 33 miles (53 km) long and 1 to 3 miles (1.6–4.8 km) wide.
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Huron, Lake, the second largest of the Great Lakes. Lake Huron is bounded on the north and east by the Canadian province of Ontario and on the south and west by the state of Michigan.
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Itasca, Lake, a lake in northwest-central Minnesota. It is on the Mississippi River, 150 miles (240 km) west of Duluth.
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Memphremagog, Lake, a lake in Vermont and Quebec. The name comes from an Indian word meaning “beautiful water.” The lake is 30 miles (48 km) long (north-south) and up to 3 miles (5 km) wide.
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Michigan, Lake, the third largest of the Great Lakes, and the only one of the group wholly in the United States.
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Lake of the Woods, a lake in Minnesota and the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario.
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Okeechobee, Lake, a lake in southern Florida, just north of the Everglades. Covering 700 square miles (1,800 km2), it is one of the nation's largest natural lakes.
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Ontario, Lake, the smallest and most easterly of the Great Lakes of North America.
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Placid, Lake, a lake in northeast New York in the Adirondack Mountains, noted for winter sports.
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Pontchartrain, Lake, a shallow body of brackish water in southeastern Louisiana. New Orleans is on its southern shore.
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St. Clair, Lake, a lake between Michigan and Ontario, northeast of Detroit. It is 26 miles (42 km) long and 24 miles (39 km) wide.
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Superior, Lake, one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the largest freshwater lake in the world.
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Tahoe, Lake, a scenic mountain lake on the California-Nevada border. It lies 6,229 feet (1,899 m) above sea level in the Sierra Nevada.
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