The world's lakes have finally been counted

Finland is called 'the land of a thousand lakes'. On registration plates in Minnesota it says '10,000 lakes!', and in Sweden there are about 100,000 lakes. But how many lakes are there in the whole world? New research from Uppsala University gives the answer: there are about 117 million lakes, covering almost four per cent of the world's surface, not counting the glaciers on Greenland and Antarctica.

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