Given the question: Pick one category for the following text. The options are - company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work. Lake Erie - Lake Erie (/ri/; French: Lac Erie) is the fourth largest lake (by surface area) of the five Great Lakes in North America and the tenth largest globally or twelfth largest globally if measured in terms of surface area. It is the southernmost shallowest and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and therefore also has the shortest average water residence time. It is bounded by Ontario to the north Ohio Pennsylvania and New York to the south and Michigan to the west.
The answer is:
Natural Place