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Lake Michigan is also one of the Great Lakes, but wholly within the U.S. territory. Its area is about more than 58.000 km2.
The maximum length of the lake can reach more than 490km and the maximum width can reach about 190km and the maximum depth in the large water season can reach over 280m.
It has also been theorized that Lake Michigan and Lake Huron were indeed a lake, known as Lake Michigan – Huron, connected through the Strait of Mackinac around 8km. With this hypothesis, Lake Michigan – Huron is the largest freshwater lake in the world about 117.500 km2.