4-453: Five Lakes may refer to: Five Lakes (China) Fuji Five Lakes , Japan Five Lakes, Michigan , United States Five Lakes is a group of lakes in Novosibirsk and Omsk Oblasts , Russia Fünfseenland , or Five Lakes Country, Germany Great Lakes , five lakes between Canada and United States [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
8-883: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Five Lakes (China) The Five Lakes or Wu Hu ( Chinese : 五湖 ; pinyin : wǔhú ), is a Chinese historical and geographical concept that has been used to describe various lakes in China. The Five Lakes most commonly refer to are five freshwater lakes in eastern and central China: Lake Tai in Jiangsu and Zhejiang , Hongze Lake in Jiangsu, Lake Chao in Anhui , Poyang Lake in Jiangxi , and Dongting Lake in Hunan . In several ancient texts, including
12-608: The Rites of Zhou and Records of the Grand Historian , the term was used to describe only Lake Tai. Various sources have described other lakes as the Five Lakes. One European 19th century encyclopedia identifies West Lake in Zhejiang as one of the Five Lakes in place of Lake Chao. In modern parlance, the idiom the "five lakes and four seas" is used to describe a vast domain, such as
16-428: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Five_Lakes&oldid=1000255189 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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