{"id":370710,"date":"2026-08-31T17:33:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=370710"},"modified":"2026-08-31T17:33:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:03:55","slug":"lake-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lake-ontario\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>News:<\/strong> U.S.A President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order to rename Lake Ontario as \u201cLake America\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">About Lake Ontario<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10853445\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10853445\" style=\"width: 438px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyloading wp-image-10853445\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.indianexpress.com\/2026\/08\/maps.jpg?resize=438%2C211&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Lake Ontario\" width=\"438\" height=\"211\" data-lazy-type=\"lazyloading-image\" data-lazy-init=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10853445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: IE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Location: Lake Ontario<\/strong> is located in<strong> North America.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is <strong>bounded by Ontario (Canada) to the north and New York (U.S.A) to the south. <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It situated on the <strong>US-Canada border.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is <strong>smallest <\/strong>and most easterly of the<strong> Great Lakes of North America.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is part of the <strong>Great Lakes system, along with Lake Superior, Michigan, Huron and Erie.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is <strong>roughly elliptical.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Feeding river: <\/strong>The main feeder of the Lake is the<strong> Niagara River. <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Other rivers include the<strong> Genesee, Oswego, Black rivers and Trent River.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The lakes system holds about<strong> 90% of the freshwater<\/strong> in the U.S.A and <strong>approximately 20% of the world\u2019s freshwater supply.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Forty million people across the two countries<\/strong> depend on it for clean drinking water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Current issue:<\/strong> U.S.A President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order <strong>to rename Lake Ontario as \u201cLake America\u201d.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The name change<strong> will apply to how the US officially refers to the lake,<\/strong> but it will not affect how Canada or the rest of the world choose to call it.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>No single global organisation is tasked with ensuring uniformity<\/strong> among names of water bodies, and the <strong>decision to use a certain name is often based on historical precedent.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: U.S.A President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order to rename Lake Ontario as \u201cLake America\u201d. About Lake Ontario Location: Lake Ontario is located in North America. It is bounded by Ontario (Canada) to the north and New York (U.S.A) to the south. It situated on the US-Canada border. It is smallest and most&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lake-ontario\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lake Ontario<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,12039,11211],"tags":[11872,10500],"class_list":["post-370710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}