Bay of Fundy is 1.03× the size of East Timor

The Bay of Fundy (bay) covers about 15,600 km² (6,010 mi²) and East Timor (country) about 15,100 km² (5,820 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Bay of Fundy outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

15,600km²Bay of Fundy
15,100km²East Timor

100 km

Bay of Fundy
East Timor

What fits

East Timor is 97% of the size of Bay of Fundy.
Bay of Fundy is larger by 481 km² (186 mi²), which is 3.2% of the area of East Timor.
Measured in Belgiums: Bay of Fundy is about 0.51, East Timor about 0.49.

How they differ

Their centres are about 15,800 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Bay of Fundy at 45°N is drawn about 2.0× too large and East Timor at 9°S about 1.0×, so the map shows Bay of Fundy as 2.01× the size of East Timor instead of 1.03×.
Together Bay of Fundy and East Timor cover 30,600 km², close to the size of Belgium (30,700 km², 0.1% bigger).
The gap between them, 481 km², is about the size of Palau (492 km²).
Bay of Fundy's centre is 53.8° of latitude, about 5,980 km, farther north than East Timor's.
The Bay of Fundy is a bay and ranks 39th of the 42 seas on sizeversus by area.
East Timor ranks 158th of 212 countries by area.
Laid out flat, the Bay of Fundy stretches about 201 km north to south and 300 km east to west; East Timor about 152 km by 361 km.
Our measured 15,600 km² is 2.7% below Wikidata’s published figure of 16,000 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	Bay of Fundy	1.03×
Farther north	Bay of Fundy	53.8° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Bay of Fundy	2.0× against 1.0×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Bay of Fundy	East Timor
Belgium 30,700 km²	0.51×	0.49×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.06×	0.06×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.04×	0.04×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.04×	0.04×
France 548,000 km²	0.03×	0.03×
India 3,151,000 km²	1 in 202	1 in 209
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	1 in 544	1 in 562
United States 9,447,000 km²	1 in 607	1 in 626
Russia 16,980,000 km²	1 in 1,091	1 in 1,126

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

Side by side

	Bay of Fundy	East Timor
Is a	Baysea on sizeversus	CountryAsia
Area, measured	15,600 km²6,010 mi²	15,100 km²5,820 mi²
Area, published	16,000 km²Wikidata	14,900 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	39th of 42seas	158th of 212countries
Greatest depth	150 mWikidata	–
Latitude range	44°N to 46°N	10°S to 8°S
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 Canada and the United States lie within 25 km of the outline of the Bay of Fundy. 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 Bay of Fundy

Similar in size to East Timor

More comparisons

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

Full method