# US State with highest water to land ratio?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 13, 2002, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-state-with-highest-water-to-land-ratio/113877 "2002-06-13T16:24:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-state-with-highest-water-to-land-ratio/113877/21 "2002-06-13T21:40:05Z")

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> Why do these data disagree with the World Almanac? For one, I think that the WA’s inland water numbers for Michagan must be a type (one order of magnitude off)!

This is more likely due to different definitions of “inland water”, especially whether the Great Lakes are considered inland or not.

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