Algeria is 1.03× the size of Bering Sea

Algeria (country) covers about 2,309,000 km² (891,000 mi²) and the Bering Sea (sea) about 2,232,000 km² (862,000 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Bering Sea outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

2,309,000km²Algeria
2,232,000km²Bering Sea

500 km

Algeria
Bering Sea

What fits

Bering Sea is 97% of the size of Algeria.
Algeria is larger by 76,500 km² (29,500 mi²), which is 3.4% of the area of Bering Sea.
Measured in Belgiums: Algeria is about 75.3, Bering Sea about 72.8.

How they differ

Their centres are about 10,500 km apart.
On a standard web map Bering Sea looks larger than Algeria: Algeria at 28°N is drawn about 1.3× too large and Bering Sea at 58°N about 3.5×, so the map shows Bering Sea as 2.62× the size of Algeria, when Algeria is 1.03× the size of Bering Sea.
Together Algeria and Bering Sea cover 4,541,000 km², close to the size of India (3,151,000 km², 31% smaller).
The gap between them, 76,500 km², is about the size of Serbia (77,600 km²).
Bering Sea's centre is 29.6° of latitude, about 3,290 km, farther north than Algeria's.
Algeria ranks 11th of 212 countries by area.
The Bering Sea is a sea and ranks 4th of the 42 seas on sizeversus by area.
Laid out flat, Algeria stretches about 2,020 km north to south and 2,070 km east to west; the Bering Sea about 1,700 km by 2,170 km.
Poured over Algeria, the 3,796,000 km³ that Wikidata records for the Bering Sea would stand 1,644 m deep.
Our measured 2,232,000 km² is 2.9% below Wikidata’s published figure of 2,300,000 km². Published areas of lakes and seas move with the water level and with what is counted, so a few percent is expected.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Algeria	1.03×
Farther north	Bering Sea	29.6° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Bering Sea	3.5× against 1.3×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Algeria	Bering Sea
Belgium 30,700 km²	75.3×	72.8×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	9.47×	9.16×
Germany 358,000 km²	6.46×	6.24×
Japan 374,000 km²	6.18×	5.98×
France 548,000 km²	4.21×	4.07×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.73×	0.71×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.27×	0.26×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.24×	0.24×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.14×	0.13×

Each figure is the place's area divided by the yardstick's.

Side by side

	Algeria	Bering Sea
Is a	CountryAfrica	Seasea on sizeversus
Area, measured	2,309,000 km²891,000 mi²	2,232,000 km²862,000 mi²
Area, published	2,382,000 km²Wikidata	2,300,000 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	11th of 212countries	4th of 42seas
Greatest depth	–	4,191 mWikidata
Volume	–	3,796,000 km³
Latitude range	19°N to 37°N	51°N to 66°N
On the shore	–	2 on the shore

Published figures: Wikidata (CC0). A lake or a sea has no legal boundary: the measured area is that of Natural Earth’s outline, and it is shown beside the published one.

Natural Earth’s outlines of Russia and the United States lie within 25 km of the outline of the Bering Sea. That is what its geometry says, and it is not a statement about who owns the water or where any border runs in it.

Similar in size to Algeria

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Sources and method

Outlines: Lakes and seas: Natural Earth 1:10m physical vectors (public domain), kept only where the measured area is within 10% of the published one. Countries and regions: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 and Admin 1, public domain.
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. A lake or a sea has no legal boundary of its own; the outline is a cartographic one.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded. The published figure comes from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-11, and is shown beside the measured one.
Drawing: Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and the two can be laid over each other.
Data built: 2026-11-11

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