Most of the lakes in the world are fresh water, with the majority of them located in the Northern Hemisphere. Canada is the second largest country in the globe, but this is not all it has to brag about.
Of all the natural lakes in the world, Canada is home to a staggering 60 percent of them. Thought Finland with almost 190,000 lakes was amazing? Well, it doesn’t even come close to Canada whose total number of lakes stands at about 3 million, with no official estimate of the number of smaller lakes. In other words, the country has more lakes than the rest of the countries combined.
561 of the lakes have a surface area larger than 100 sq. km, and four of the Great Lakes fall here. 9 percent of the total land surface in Canada is covered by freshwater.