Cyprus is 1.01× the size of Lake Winnipegosis

Cyprus (country) covers about 5,400 km² (2,080 mi²) and Lake Winnipegosis (lake) about 5,360 km² (2,070 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Lake Winnipegosis outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

5,400km²Cyprus
5,360km²Lake Winnipegosis

50 km

Cyprus
Lake Winnipegosis

What fits

Lake Winnipegosis is 99% of the size of Cyprus.
Cyprus is larger by 32.9 km² (12.7 mi²), which is 0.6% of the area of Lake Winnipegosis.
Measured in Belgiums: Cyprus is about 0.18, Lake Winnipegosis about 0.17.

How they differ

Their centres are about 9,280 km apart.
On a standard web map Lake Winnipegosis looks larger than Cyprus: Cyprus at 35°N is drawn about 1.5× too large and Lake Winnipegosis at 53°N about 2.7×, so the map shows Lake Winnipegosis as 1.81× the size of Cyprus, when Cyprus is 1.01× the size of Lake Winnipegosis.
Together Cyprus and Lake Winnipegosis cover 10,800 km², close to the size of Kosovo (10,900 km², 1.5% bigger).
Lake Winnipegosis's centre is 17.6° of latitude, about 1,960 km, farther north than Cyprus's.
Cyprus ranks 170th of 212 countries by area.
Lake Winnipegosis is a lake and ranks 28th of the 104 lakes on sizeversus by area.
Laid out flat, Cyprus stretches about 63 km north to south and 166 km east to west; Lake Winnipegosis about 178 km by 102 km.
Poured over Cyprus, the 20 km³ that Wikidata records for Lake Winnipegosis would stand 3.7 m deep.
Our measured 5,360 km² is 3.8% above Wikidata’s published figure of 5,160 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	Cyprus	1.01×
Farther north	Lake Winnipegosis	17.6° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Lake Winnipegosis	2.7× against 1.5×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Cyprus	Lake Winnipegosis
Belgium 30,700 km²	0.18×	0.17×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.02×	0.02×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.02×	0.01×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
France 548,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
India 3,151,000 km²	1 in 584	1 in 588
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	1 in 1,570	1 in 1,580
United States 9,447,000 km²	1 in 1,751	1 in 1,762
Russia 16,980,000 km²	1 in 3,147	1 in 3,167

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

Side by side

	Cyprus	Lake Winnipegosis
Is a	CountryAsia	Lakelake on sizeversus
Area, measured	5,400 km²2,080 mi²	5,360 km²2,070 mi²
Area, published	9,240 km²Wikidata	5,160 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	170th of 212countries	28th of 104lakes
Greatest depth	–	12 mWikidata
Volume	–	20 km³
Latitude range	35°N to 35°N	52°N to 53°N
On the shore	–	1 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 contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Lake Winnipegosis. 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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