We got the Great Lakes, the pretty good lakes, the mediocre lakes, and the abysmal lakes.

The reservoirs look like that because they were formed by damming a river and thereby drowning its valley. If you look at the reservoirs in Wales, which were also formed by drowning valleys, many of them have a similar look.

Truth Or Consequences got it's name in 1950. The name used to Hot Springs, New Mexico but was changed when a host of a TV quiz show said if a town changed their name to the name of the show, he'd host from that town. Which is one of the most American things you can possibly think of! "Screw the heritage of the people who founded this town! We're getting on TV!" 😂😂😂😂😂😂

The Finger Lakes in western New York State were formed when the glaciers advanced as part of the last ice age. They were dug out as the glaciers marched south, and then filled up as the glaciers retreated north with the melt.

Here in Michigan we call those others ponds lol. I know they are shared by many states and Canada, but still. Sometime do a video on the Great Lakes it’s truly amazing! ❤ great video.

Great Lake Facts: The State with the largest coastline and the most Light Houses is Michigan. Lake Superior is the only Great Lake that does not have it’s original Native American Indian Name - Lake Gitchi Gummi. Listen to Gordon Lightfoot sing a tribute to The Wreck of The Edmond Fitzgerald.

The states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Navada, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Oklahoma, Kansas, and into Canada where an ocean 100 million years ago. When the ocean evaporated and recided, some low areas maintained salt water lakes that we see today.

A list of largest natural, non dam lakes would be more interesting.

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico used to be named Hot Springs. In 1950, Ralph Edwards, the producer of a 1940s/50s radio / TV game show with that name, had a contest to find a town willing to rename itself after the show, and Hot Springs won. The town still has a festival every year on the anniversary of the re-naming and the producer came to town for it every year for 50 years.

The eastern edge of Lake Michigan which forms Michigan's west coast has some of the best beaches, anywhere. The sand is like finely ground sugar except for the taste, I suppose. :D Up and down the coast there are also several places where there are sand dunes that are really fun to play on. In my early 20s, I was a camp counselor. I would take kids over to the Lake Michigan shore. We would cook our dinner over a fire, goof around on some sand dunes, watch the awesome sunset over the lake and then sleep over night on the beach under the stars. Those were some great times.

When Raystown Lake was made, the town it's named for was flooded. You can still see it when you go diving in the lake.

We don't say "back garden" a garden is an area where flowers are planted....we say "back YARD" a yard is a large area of land around a house. So a "yard" surrounding an American house may have several "gardens" (flower garden, vegetable garden...etc)

Haha, while looking at #9 you asked if Nevada had been listed yet. It was #11, just 2 states earlier. You were so preoccupied wondering about how Pyramid Lake (175 sq mi) became saline that you didn't notice.

I'm from the U.S. (Chicago, to be exact) and I'm familiar with a lot of the lakes on this list. The lakes that you say look like rivers actually ARE sections of rivers that have been dammed off to flood a portion of the river to form a lake, but they are always still connected to the river by it's dams, so I share your sentiment about them not being true lakes. I would have preferred it if this list included only natural lakes and not manmade ones.

So, he found the name of the Massachusetts lake amusing? Maybe he wouldn't be so amused if he actually pronounced it correctly. Quabbin rhymes with "robin" and is a word from the native Nipmuc language that means "meeting place of many waters". Now if he wanted the oddest names of lakes in each US state, Massachusetts would be at the top of the list with Lake Char­gogg­a­gogg­man­chaugg­a­gogg­chau­bun­a­gung­a­maugg. It's the longest name of any geographic location or formation in the US. It has several other spellings but all trace back to the Nipmuc language. There are several translations but many allude to "neutral fishing place". That led to the not-so- authentic translation " you fish on your side of the lake, we fish on our side and nobody fishes in the middle". It is also called Lake Webster... much easier to pronounce.

It takes some discipline to sit through a video on the largest lakes in a country you don't live in. Good shit man.

20:38 #11 Nevada, and at #9 you ask if they have said Nevada

The requirement "must be entirely contained in one state" eliminates the largest lakes in the country, making the list kind of pointless.

By volume, Oregon's biggest lake is Crater Lake. Crater is America's deepest lake and North America's second deepest at 1949 feet. Many of Oregon's lake are crystal clear and all are amazingly cold and beautiful.

We have skinny lakes because we have a lot of rivers because we have a lot of mountains and skinny valleys. Super easy to block up one narrow spot and create a skinny resevoir/lake. Capture the spring run off and use it all year.

Arizona, USA here. I'm less than 2 hrs from Roosevelt lake. Gorgeous area and good fishing! Great review!

I like when you show things from your home.

Nevada had the saline lake that you looked up.

A large section of the middle of the US was once a huge inland sea way a few million years ago, that connected the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, so there are large salt deposits in much of that area.

I used to live half a mile from the quabbin reservoir caught a 6.5 pound bass there great fishing

The correct pronunciation of the Quabbin Reservoir in Massachusetts is kwa-bin.

Lake Michigan's total area is 22,000 sq miles.

Lake Lanier is a very popular location with over ten millions visits a year, but I have been cautioned about going there. It has a horrible history that has led to stories of it being haunted and many people have disappeared there. I think it is considered one of the deadliest lakes in the United States. It has some movies and documentaries made about it including a horror film. I would recommend checking it out.

All five Great lakes are the size of the United Kingdom

Number 18 Maine - Moosehead Lake will surprise you by the sound of it. You had paused and mentioned the islands in the lake and how the lake is in a rural area the island, therefore, probably is rarely traveled. Well, as it turns out, Moosehead Lake is a popular place for summer only residents from out of state and some other visitors to vacation. It is rural in that area but in summer there's definitely more people. And one of the islands (I think one of the ones you hovered over if my memory serves) is Mt. Kineo. You can go over to the island and hike Mt. Kineo (a state park) and then if you so fancy you can go to the golf course also on the island. There's shuttle boats over so you can get to the island to hike or golf. I've kayaked over and hiked Mt. Kineo. I did not take part in the golf though - not my sport - and more so not my forte. So in the summer season you are unlikely to be alone on the island. In the off season though when all the vacationers from out of state leave, well, that a different story.

W Fond du lac, Oshkosh, Appleton and lake Winnebago mentioned

20:47 "You just ain't got the sand to go with it" ... Bruv! It's in Nevada

Lake Michigan is the largest body of water totally in one nation. It is 310 miles long and more than 100 miles wide and surface of 21,000 sq. miles. Technically Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are one lake, separated by the Straits of Mackinac, but Huron is divided between the US and Canada, while Michigan is totally in the US and borders Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana.

I live about 15 minutes from Lake Ontario. Recently we've been going there daily because the water is ice cold and it has been in the upper 90s. The eerie canal actually also runs right thru our town. we have several lift bridges so that large boats can travel the canal.

The American and uk comparisons put everything in perspective

Mark Twain called Lake Tahoe the most beautiful in the world. Considering, the author did cross the globe twice, I would value the opinion.

THE GREAT LAKES ARE THE BIGGEST

16:30 i was up at moosehead lake last september on a fishing trip so we took a boat out there and we were only in the southernmost tip of it yet it felt like we were SO far from any land it was actually crazy. and we weren’t even in one of the more empty areas of the lake. some of those islands in the lake have little shacks or off-grid homes. i don’t think anyone lives in them full time but rather go out for a weekend or something but im not even entirely sure. He mentioned in the video how greenville is really the only “built up” town along the lakes shoreline and that is where we were staying. only about 1000 residents living there to give you an idea of how rural the area is

The Gauley river runs into Summersville Lake. I grew up there.

You should watch something about the cascade mountain range in the pnw

I live on a 13 mile long glacial lake. There’s islands , beautiful beaches , and a river . I can see it from my front porch.

Good video bro.

I was stationed at Ft. Riley and went to Milford lake all the time. My gf and I went skinny dipping in that lake. They flooded a whole town creating that lake.

Nevada had the saline lake !!!!

Nevada has about ⅓ of the shoreline of Lake Tahoe as well as Lakes Powell and Mead (reservoirs behind dams on the Colorado River. They won't get mentioned because they aren't that large but there are a couple of long skinny lakes of the sort that don't impress you near San Francisco. They are filled up cracks along the San Andreas earthquake fault and provide the city with water. So many lakes shared by states so not on the list.

I love seeing you react to Chicago Geographer! He’s one of my favorite small KZfaqrs!

Bless your heart even az has huge lakes I jet ski all the time 1/2;hour away from PHX at pleasant or hour away at Barrett lake

Do a vid of just the great lakes.

keep "the finger lakes" away from Elephant Butt lake lol

To put that in perspective the lake in Alaska is almost double the size of the greater London area

I grew up in New Hampshire and when I was a kid I had a friend whos family had two cabins on Lake Winnipesaukee, and we spent some time there. It was just beautiful!

Fun fact az has the old London bridge from England on lake Havasu

Wisconsin is slightly larger than England and we have over 15,000 lakes, there are a bunch of huge lakes. Lake Winnebago has the biggest area but it's more of a shallow lake. Some of our lakes are small but in most places they would be considered a good sized lake. I believe we have ponds that are larger than some state's lakes. We also border Lake Superior, Lake Michigan and the Mississippi giving Wisconsin more coast land than California and yes we do have surfing on Lake Michigan.

As a person who lives in Michiagn: that list js dumb

Yes, Nevada was mentioned. it was right before Texas.

Nevada is the saline lake you mentioned how it affected your eczema.

You should do the Great Lakes. I live close to Lake Erie.

Tennessee has one natural lake, re not man made. The name of the lake is Reelfoot Lake in the upper northwestern portion of the state next to Kentucky. You should read about how it was formed during the earthquakes of 1811-1812.

Child, we are just getting started😂 relax and enjoy the show😂

Yes the Saltan Sea is the one in GTA.

I know that the largest lake in England is The Windermere. I've actually been there and took a short afternoon cruise to view the surrounding scenery from the lake. It's just shy of 6 sq miles.

615 people live on that island on Moosehead Lake in Maine. Wealthy people it seems.

California's Walter Sea is depressing to see, but they recently discovered that it it is the site of one of the largest lithium deposits in the world.

Ochochobee in Florida

The salt in a saline lake comes from the sodium (in crystal form) that naturally occurs in the bedrock (ground) under and around the lake.

Lough Neagh is 153 sq miles. It’s 20 miles from Belfast.

The Saline lakes of Nevada and Utah are prehistoric lakes. That region used to be the ocean and eventually closed up due too tectonic activity.

AZ has 50 lakes man made and 3 rivers one being Colorado river

I do have to say the largest lake in Colorado is not Blue Mesa, it is Navajo Lake, at 15,600 sq. acres, compared to Blue Medals 9,180 sq. acres.

Dam.

1) At 3:00, there's a good reason why the sparsely populated island of Ni'ihau gets few visitors. Known as "the Forbidden Isle," it is off-limits to all outsiders except the descendants of the white woman who bought it in 1864, U.S. Navy personnel, government officials, and invited guests. Most of the 84 residents are Native Hawai'ian and speak Hawai'ian as their primary language. 2) At 10:26, the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was mentioned. An area of 27,000 square miles (70,000 square km) was covered in flood waters up to 30 feet (9 meters) deep. Hundreds of thousands of people, predominantly African-Americans, were made homeless and moved to the cities of the North as part of the "Great Migration." The Army Corps of Engineers has worked for decades since then building levees and other flood protection measures to prevent such a severe flood from happening again, we hope. 3) The town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, was originally named Hot Springs, because of the nearby hot springs. It sounds too absurd to be true, but in 1950 the town changed its name to that of the radio trivia game show "Truth or Consequences." It was a publicity stunt for the show, which promised to broadcast its 10th anniversary special from a town that changed its name to that of the show. 4) At 14:40, the "Finger Lakes" were carved during the last Ice Age. The ice came from and retreated to the north, which is why the lakes run north-to-south. 5) At 25:35, Nevada's was the first saline lake.

A reservoir or a damned lake are created by damming a river, so yes, they will look like a river

Don’t make fun of are names you Brit !😊

0:30 I doth he protests too much ;)

LOL, it's just like you know what a big lake is, lol, but different 😂

0:37 caught in 1440p 🤣😂 Had to give you a hard time.

Nevada was #11; the saline lake.

Despite your offhanded "forget the people"in minute 28, in the US, people are generally well compensated by the government if their property is damaged, destroyed, or claimed by the government in the pursuit of a project deemed necessary for the overall public good.

Delaware’s largest lake and park are haunted.

Wish i could have.

Trivia.

The Great Lakes are the biggest source of freshwater in the world.

Don't we all just have tabs of Emma Stone up?

HOUGHTON LAKE? BROTHER WE HAVE 4 OF THE GREAT LAKES AND THEY PICK HOUGHTON LAKE ITS LITERALLY A MUD PUDDLE WTF

Could you imagine how many alligators are in that lake in Florida?

I wonder what thia liat wouldnlooke like without all the man made lakes.

Pyramid Lake is in Nevada.

There are 6 larger lakes not included because he excluded the lakes sharing states. 1,000 sq mi aint nothing. Lake Superior is the largest at 31,700 sq mi. He also missed some well known beautiful ones like Lake Tahoe.

Utah has the great salt lake.

The funniest lake ever will always be lake titicaca in south america.

Fun fact: Wisconsin actually has more lakes than minnestoa. :) I don't wanna hear your reasons you think you have more minnesotans, you're wrong

The biggest lake in the UK is not 20 square miles. It's 20 miles across, and 151 square miles in surface area.

Sweetheart these are only the smallest Lakes

My state is in the top fifteen.

I mean, should they count man made reservoirs as a lake?

Our largest lakes border more than one state, so they do not qualify for this list.

Hahaha! Go Ohio!

all the big lakes have at least one state line running through them. I don't get what this guy is on about with "largest lakes" when he disqualifies them all.

English lakes may not be that large but no American lakes inspired poetry like the English Lake District (Lake Windermere is one of the lakes there).

Dont knock your country bro. I never got to visit in the navy.