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Mille Lacs Lake

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Mille Lacs Lake

Mille Lacs Lake ( mə-LAKS, also called Lake Mille Lacs or Mille Lacs) is a large, shallow lake in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is located in the counties of Mille Lacs, Aitkin, and Crow Wing, roughly 75 miles (121 km) north of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. Mille Lacs means "thousand

lakes" in French. In the Ojibwe language of the people who historically occupied this area, the lake is called Misi-zaaga'igan ("grand lake").

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