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Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake by surface area
Covering roughly 82,100 square kilometres, Lake Superior borders Canada and the United States.
Lake Superior contains more water than all the other North American Great Lakes combined, holding ten per cent of the world's surface fresh water. It is so vast that it behaves like an inland sea, generating localized weather systems and severe autumn storms. The lake empties into Lake Huron via the St Marys River.
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Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake by surface area: the short answers
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- Covering roughly 82,100 square kilometres, Lake Superior borders Canada and the United States. The figure is taken from USGS, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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