Because it has a lot of lakes.
Minnesota, a State in the USA is often called the "land of ten thousand lakes".
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Finland is called the land of a thousand lakes because it has about 187,888 lakes.
The land of thousand elephants is Vietnam.
maye be south africa or thailand
The country that is known as "the land of a thousand lakes" is Finland. This country has 187,888 lakes and is home to almost 5 million people.
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Land of a thousand hills is Rwanda in Africa
Answer Lake Michigan is called a lake because it is surrounded by land all the way around it. Also it's fresh water, not salt water. Oceans tend to be salt water no matter what country they surround and there are no lakes the size of an ocean.
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