Lakes to Lakes

Beltrami County, US

Land area: 3,056 square miles (7,914 km²), of which 2,505 square miles (6,489 km²) is land and 550 square miles (1,425 km²) (18.01%) is water.

Persons per square mile, 2000: 15.8

Population, 2009 estimate: 44,350

Lakes in Beltrami County: 139

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Beltrami county is in the North West quadrant of Minnesota. Bemidji is 104 miles to Baudette on the Canadian border.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltrami_County,_Minnesota

http://www.co.beltrami.mn.us/

Cumbria, England

Land area: 2629 (square miles)

Persons per square mile: 118

Population:    496,900

Lakes in Cumbria:  19

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Cumbria joins the North West of England with the North East and Scotland, with road and rail networks north, south and east.  Windermere is 77 miles to Gretna on the Scottish border.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria

http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/factsandfigures/