By Jack Brummet, h2O Ed.
Photo of Symphony lake courtesy of Wikipedia Commons. Photo by Frank Kovalchek, 2009
It's kind of a mind-effer that there are three million lakes in Alaska [statistic via Wikipedia/media]. That is more than four lakes for each person living there. Eat your heart out Minne-land of 10,000 lakes-sota.
Seattle, with 100,000 less people than Alaska, has five lakes. One of them is large. And then there is the shore of Puget Sound. Of Seattle's total area, 41% is under water.
Aerial photo of Seattle permission of Wikipedia User:Jelson25, via Wikipedia Commons.