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In the US, Lake Superior is the largest lake. Lake Michigan is the largest lake that is actually in the US. Lake Superior is larger but it's impossible to credit it as largest since a good deal of it is in another country, namely Canada.
Four of the five Great Lakes are partly in Canada and partly in the US. Lake Michigan is the largest lake in the US.Canada's Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake are larger than Lakes Erie and...