List of lakes in Minnesota

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This is a list of lakes in Minnesota. Minnesota is known as The Land of 10,000 Lakes, but the official count of lakes more than ten acres (40,000 m²) in size is 11,842.<ref>Lakes, rivers & wetlands facts Accessed 06/22/06</ref> The only U.S. state with more lakes than Minnesota is Alaska. All but four Minnesota counties (Mower, Olmsted, Pipestone and Rock) contain at least one natural lake.

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#	Name	Area	County(ies)	Notes
	Anderson Lake		Hennepin
	Bass Lake		Hennepin	St. Louis Park, Minnesota
	Bass Lake		Hennepin	Maple Grove, Minnesota
	Beebe Lake		Wright
	Benton Lake		Carver
	Big Stone Lake			Shared with South Dakota
	Black Lake		Hennepin
	Bryant Lake		Hennepin
2	Bush Lake		Hennepin; Cass
	Carrigan Lake		Wright
	Casey Lake
	Cass Lake	25 mi² (65 km²)	Cass, Beltrami
2	Cannon Lake		Goodhue, Rice
	Cedar Island Lake		Hennepin
	Cedar Lake		Hennepin
	Cedar Lake		Wright
	Centenial Lake		Hennepin
	Christmas Lake		Hennepin, Carver
	Clear Lake		Waseca
	Crystal Lake		Hennepin
	Coleman Lake		Hennepin
	Cowly Lake		Hennepin
	Crab Lake
	Crane Lake		Hennepin
	Crane Lake		St. Louis
	Crooked Lake	–	Anoka
	Cross Lake		Wabasha
	Crystal Lake		Hennepin
	Dean Lake		Wright
	Diamond Lake		Aitkin
	Diamond Lake		Cass
	Diamond Lake		Cook
	Diamond Lake		Hennepin	Dayton, Minnesota
	Diamond Lake		Hennepin	Minneapolis, Minnesota
	Diamond Lake		Hubbard
	Diamond Lake		Kandiyohi
	Diamond Lake		La Sueur
	Diamond Lake		Pope
	Duck Lake		Hennepin
	Dutch Lake		Hennepin
	Dutch Lake		Wright
	Eagle Lake		Hennepin
	East Marsh Lake		Hennepin
	East Side Lake		Mower	Man-made
	Elysian		Waseca
	Farr Lake		Anoka
	Fish Lake		Hennepin
	Forest Lake		Washington
	Forest Lake		Hennepin
	Fountain Lake		Wright
	Fox Lake		Hennepin
	French Lake		Hennepin
	French Lake		McLeod
	French Lake		Rice
	Galpin Lake		Hennepin
	Gleason Lake		Hennepin
	Glen Lake		Hennepin
	Goose Lake		Hennepin
	Grass Lake		Hennepin
	Green Lake		Kandiyohi
7+	Gull Lake	–
	Hadley Lake		Hennepin
	Hafften Lake		Hennepin
	Hart Lake		Anoka
	Haughey Lake		Hennepin
	Hayden Lake		Hennepin
	Henry Lake		Hennepin
	Highland Lake		Anoka
	Hill Lake		Hill City
	Holy Name Lake		Hennepin
	Hyland Lake		Hennepin
	Kabekona Lake		Hubbard
	Keller Lake
	Lac qui Parle		Lac qui Parle, Chippewa
	Laddie Lake		Anoka
	Lake Ann		Hennepin
	Lake Ann		Wright
	Lake Auburn		Hennepin
	Lake Bemidji		Beltrami
	Lake Benton		Lincoln
	Lake Calhoun	422 acres	Hennepin
	Lake Charlotte		Martin
	Lake Charlotte		Wright
	Lake Classen		Hennepin
	Lake Como		Ramsey	Saint Paul, Minnesota
	Lake Cornelia		Hennepin
	Lake Emma		Wright
	Lake George		Anoka
	Lake Girard		Hennepin
	Lake Harriet		Hennepin	Minneapolis, Minnesota
	Lake Hiawatha		Hennepin	Minneapolis, Minnesota
	Lake Hubert
	Lake Independence		Hennepin
	Lake Itasca	1.8 mi² (4.7 km²)	Clearwater	starting point of Mississippi River
	Lake Kabetogama
	Lake Katrina		Hennepin
	Lake Laura		Hennepin
	Lake Louise		Mower	Man-made; part of Lake Louise State Park
	Lake Lucy		Hennepin
	Lake Marion		McLeod
	Lake Minnetonka		Hennepin
	Lake Minnewashta		Hennepin
	Lake Nokomis		Hennepin
	Lake of the Isles		Hennepin
	Lake of the Woods			Shared with Canada
	Lake Phalen		Ramsey
	Lake Pepin
	Lake Rauchie		Anoka
	Lake Rebecca		Hennepin
	Lake Riley		Hennepin
	Lake Rose		Hennepin
	Lake Saganaga			Third-deepest natural lake in Minnesota at 240'
	Lake Sarah		Murray
	Lake Sarah		Hennepin
	Lake Sarah		Polk
	Lake Superior	36,670 mi² (82,100 km²)		Shared with Wisconsin, Michigan, and Canada; largest lake in the world by surface area
	Lake Susan		Hennepin
	Lake Traverse			shared with South Dakota
	Lake Vermilion		St. Louis
	Lake Virginia		Hennepin
	Lake Waconia		Carver
	Lake Winnibigoshish
	Lake Zumbro		Wabasha	Man-Made for the Zumbro Power Dam
	Langdon Lake		Hennepin
	Leech Lake
	Lemans Lake		Hennepin
	Little Long Lake		Hennepin
	Lone Lake		Hennepin
	Long Lake		Anoka
	Long Lake		Hennepin	Long Lake
	Long Lake		Hennepin	Minnestrista
	Long Lake		Kandiyohi
	Long Lake		Wright
	Long Meadow Lake		Hennepin
	Loon Lake		Waseca
	Lotus Lake		Hennepin
	Louzers Lake		Wright
	Lower Cullen Lake
	Lower Penn Lake		Hennepin
	Lunsten Lake		Hennepin
	Maple Lake		Douglas
	McCay Lake		Hennepin
	Medicine Lake		Hennepin
	Middle Twin Lake		Hennepin
	Mille Lacs Lake	207 mi²
	Mitchell Lake		Hennepin
	Mooney Lake		Hennepin
	Moore Lake		Anoka
	Mother Lake		Hennepin
	Mt Normandale Lake		Hennepin
70+	Mud Lake	–	Hennepin, Carver, Wright, Kandiyohi
	Neill Lake		Hennepin
	Nest Lake		Kandiyohi
	North Long Lake	~6,000 acres (24 km²)
	Oak Lake		Carver
	Okamanpeedan Lake			Shared with Iowa
	Orchard Lake
	Otter Tail Lake	21 mi²	Otter Tail
	Ox Yolk Lake		Hennepin
	Palmer Lake		Hennepin
	Parkers Lake		Hennepin
	Peter Lake		Hennepin
	Pike Lake		Anoka
	Pokegama Lake		Itasca
	Pomerleau Lake		Hennepin
	Portsmouth Mine Pit Lake	121 acres		Man-made; second deepest lake in state at over 450 ft
	Rainy Lake	345 mi² (894 km²)	Koochiching	Headwaters of the Rainy River, and comprises the local US-Canadian border
	Red Lake		Beltrami	Minnesota's largest wholly-contained lake
	Red Rock Lake		Hennepin
100+	Rice Lake	–	Hennepin,Steele, straddling Wright and Carver
	Rice Marsh Lake		Hennepin
	Richfield Lake		Hennepin
	Ringo Lake		Kandiyohi
	Roberd's Lake		Rice
	Robina Lake		Hennepin
36+	Round Lake	–	Hennepin, Anoka, Wright
	Ruckles Lake		Wright
	Ryan Lake		Hennepin
	Sakatah		Le Sueur
	Sawbill Lake		Cook
	Seton Lake		Hennepin
	Silver Lake		Anoka and Hennepin
	Saunders Lake		Hennepin
	Schednel Lake		Hennepin
	Schmidt Lake		Hennepin
	Schutz Lake		Hennepin
	Schwappauff Lake		Hennepin
	Snelling Lake		Hennepin
	Spellman Lake		Yellow Medicine
	Spoon Lake
	Spring Lake		Anoka
	Spurzem Lake		Hennepin
	Staring Lake		Hennepin
	Stieger Lake		Hennepin
	Stone Lake		Hennepin
	Sullivan Lake		Anoka
	Sweeney Lake		Hennepin
	Sylvan Lake		Hennepin
	Swamp Lake		Hennepin
	Tanager Lake		Hennepin
	Tetonka		Le Sueur
	Tuey Lake		Wright
	Twin Lake		Hennepin	Golden Valley, Minnesota
	Twin Lake		Hennepin	Brooklyn Center, Minnesota and Crystal, Minnesota
	Upper Hay Lake
	Upper Twin Lake		Hennepin
2	Vermilion Lake	40,557 acres (164 km²)	St. Louis, Cass	Veterans Lake
	West Marsh Lake		Hennepin
	Whaletail Lake		Hennepin
	White Bear Lake		Ramsey
	Wirth Lake		Hennepin
	Wolsfeld Lake		Hennepin
	Wolsfield Lake		Hennepin
	Wood Lake		Hennepin
	Yager Lake		Wright
	Zumbra Lake		Hennepin