Which country has the most lakes?

shantaram

FINLAND, it has the sobriquet of 'The land of the thousand lakes'! Sep 07 00, 10:01 AM

hummerh3

Finland has 187,888 lakes. There are 187,888 lakes in Finland. Lake is here defined as a body of standing water larger than 5 acres (500 m2). The number of lakes larger than 1 hectares (10,000 m2) is 56,000. Lake number density is largest north of Lake Inari, sometimes called the Finnish Pond District (Lampi-Suomi). In this area there can be 1,000 lakes within 100 square kilometres. In the Finnish Lake District, a typical value is 40 lakes within 100 square kilometres. http://www.ymparisto.fi/default.asp?node=12335&lan=en [Added reference - McG] Feb 28 04, 10:34 AM

nyx200

Canada has over 3 million lakes . . . more than every other country in the world combined. There are some two million lakes in Canada, covering about 7.6 percent of the Canadian landmass. The main lakes, in order of the surface area located in Canada (many large lakes are traversed by the Canada-U.S. border), are Huron, Great Bear, Superior, Great Slave, Winnipeg, Erie and Ontario. The largest lake situated entirely in Canada is Great Bear Lake (31,328 km2) in the Northwest Territories. The deepest lake is Great Slave Lake, N.W.T., 614 metres. http://www.canadainfolink.ca/chartnine.htm [Added reference - McG] Aug 21 06, 11:06 AM

Brainyblonde

Canada by far has more lakes than any other country in the world and has a large amount of the world's freshwater. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada#Geography_and_climate There is no accepted answer to the question: How many lakes are there in Canada? The best answer is that 31,752 lakes have an area of at least three square kilometres. These data were compiled by Environment Canada in 1973. http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/learningresources/facts/faq.html#q7 Aug 21 06, 11:47 AM

Aedan57

I was taught in a college geology course that Canada has more lakes than all other countries combined! Glaciation plus Canada's large land mass account for this. Mar 14 13, 5:38 AM