Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.

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Lake Superior photographed from the International Space Station
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Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.

Canada has more than half of the lakes in the HydroLAKES inventory, whose minimum mapped lake area is 10 hectares. That does not establish that Canada contains most of every pond and lake on Earth.

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France has more time zones than any other country.

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Alaska is the most western and the most eastern US state.

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