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Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded on the north, west, and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south and east by the U.S. state of New York. The Canada–United States border spans the centre of the lake.
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Lake Ontario (43°30'N, 78°00'W) is the eastern-most and smallest in surface area (7,540 square miles, 19,529 km²) of the Great Lakes, although it exceeds Lake Erie in volume (393 cubic miles, 1639 km³). It is the 14th largest lake in the world and has a shoreline 712 miles (1146 km) long.
Lake Ontario is situated at the border of the two largest North-American countries, with a surface area of 19,000 km2. Canada’s most populous province was actually named after the lake. Ontario is the Easternmost of the Great Lakes, being the only one that does not share a coastline with the state of Michigan.
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Lake Ontario is one of the Great Lakes on the border between the United States of America and Canada. Sequentially the last of the lakes, Ontario is the smallest by surface area and second-smallest in size. Water comes in from Lake Erie via the Niagara River (and Niagara Falls) and leaves via the Saint Lawrence River, headed for the Atlantic Ocean.
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Description: This map shows where Lake Ontario is located in the United States. Size: 1400x1334px Author: Ontheworldmap.com
Lake Ontario is located 325 ft (99 m) below Lake Erie at the base of Niagara Falls. Before the construction of the Trent-Severn Waterway and Welland (1913) and Erie Canals, the falls posed a major obstacle to Great Lakes navigation. Lake Ontario supports many wetlands and an important freshwater fishery.
It forms most of the border between Ontario in Canada and New York in the United States of America. Its inlet is the Niagara River (from Niagara Falls ), and its outlet is the Saint Lawrence River. Nearly 9 million Canadians live near Lake Ontario. It is the only Great Lake that does not touch the U.S. state of Michigan, the "Great Lakes State".
