Which country has the most natural lakes in the world?

No country on Earth has more natural lakes than Canada. The numbers are staggering: Canada is estimated to contain around two million lakes, and it holds well over half of all the lakes in the entire world. Scattered across its enormous landscape, these bodies of water are so numerous that many of the smaller ones do not even have names.

The reason behind this incredible abundance lies in the distant past, during the last Ice Age. Thousands of years ago, vast sheets of ice covered what is now Canada. These glaciers were immensely heavy, and as they slowly moved, they scraped, gouged, and carved deep hollows into the rock and soil beneath them. When the climate warmed and the ice finally melted, all that meltwater filled the countless hollows the glaciers had left behind. The result was a landscape dimpled with lakes from coast to coast.

Among Canada's millions of lakes, the most famous are the Great Lakes, a chain of five enormous connected lakes shared with the United States. They are Superior, Huron, Erie, Ontario, and Michigan. Together they form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth by total area, and they hold a remarkable share of all the fresh surface water on the planet. Lake Superior, the largest of the five, is so big it behaves almost like an inland sea.

Canada's lakes are not only impressive in count, they are central to the country itself. Roughly nine percent of Canada's entire territory is covered by fresh water. These lakes shape the climate, support vast ecosystems and wildlife, supply drinking water, and define the look of the Canadian wilderness. For a country famous for its natural beauty, the endless mirror-like lakes are one of its defining features.

This article was written using information from Wikipedia.