The above table provides the three possible answers to: What is the largest lake in Canada ?
• If one includes lakes partially or wholly in Canada, the answer is Lake Superior (which is the second largest lake in the world – only the Caspian Sea is larger). • The largest lake wholly in Canada is Great Bear Lake. • The largest surface area of a lake in Canada is that of Lake Huron. 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. For data on many other lakes in Canada, refer to the appropriate table from the “Lakes section” of the Atlas site.
