Bering Sea is 1.14× the size of Mexico

The Bering Sea (sea) covers about 2,232,000 km² (862,000 mi²) and Mexico (country) about 1,958,000 km² (756,000 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.

2,232,000km²Bering Sea
1,958,000km²Mexico

500 km

Bering Sea
Mexico

What fits

Mexico is 88% of the size of Bering Sea.
Bering Sea is larger by 275,000 km² (106,000 mi²), which is 14% of the area of Mexico.
Measured in Belgiums: Bering Sea is about 72.8, Mexico about 63.8.

How they differ

Their centres are about 6,950 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Bering Sea at 58°N is drawn about 3.5× too large and Mexico at 24°N about 1.2×, so the map shows Bering Sea as 3.32× the size of Mexico instead of 1.14×.
Together Bering Sea and Mexico cover 4,190,000 km², close to the size of India (3,151,000 km², 25% smaller).
The gap between them, 275,000 km², is about the size of Burkina Faso (273,000 km²).
Bering Sea's centre is 33.7° of latitude, about 3,740 km, farther north than Mexico's.
The Bering Sea is a sea and ranks 4th of the 42 seas on sizeversus by area.
Mexico ranks 13th of 212 countries by area.
Laid out flat, the Bering Sea stretches about 1,700 km north to south and 2,170 km east to west; Mexico about 2,040 km by 2,990 km.
Poured over Mexico, the 3,796,000 km³ that Wikidata records for the Bering Sea would stand 1,939 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	Bering Sea	1.14×
Farther north	Bering Sea	33.7° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Bering Sea	3.5× against 1.2×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Bering Sea	Mexico
Belgium 30,700 km²	72.8×	63.8×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	9.16×	8.03×
Germany 358,000 km²	6.24×	5.47×
Japan 374,000 km²	5.98×	5.24×
France 548,000 km²	4.07×	3.57×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.71×	0.62×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.26×	0.23×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.24×	0.21×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.13×	0.12×

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

Side by side

	Bering Sea	Mexico
Is a	Seasea on sizeversus	CountryNorth America
Area, measured	2,232,000 km²862,000 mi²	1,958,000 km²756,000 mi²
Area, published	2,300,000 km²Wikidata	1,961,000 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	4th of 42seas	13th of 212countries
Greatest depth	4,191 mWikidata	–
Volume	3,796,000 km³	–
Latitude range	51°N to 66°N	15°N to 33°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.

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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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