Hawaii is 1.08× the size of Bay of Fundy

Hawaii (state) covers about 16,800 km² (6,510 mi²) and the Bay of Fundy (bay) about 15,600 km² (6,010 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.

16,800km²Hawaii
15,600km²Bay of Fundy

100 km

Hawaii
Bay of Fundy

What fits

Bay of Fundy is 92% of the size of Hawaii.
Hawaii is larger by 1,280 km² (496 mi²), which is 8.3% of the area of Bay of Fundy.
Measured in Belgiums: Hawaii is about 0.55, Bay of Fundy about 0.51.

How they differ

Their centres are about 8,480 km apart.
On a standard web map Bay of Fundy looks larger than Hawaii: Hawaii at 20°N is drawn about 1.1× too large and Bay of Fundy at 45°N about 2.0×, so the map shows Bay of Fundy as 1.63× the size of Hawaii, when Hawaii is 1.08× the size of Bay of Fundy.
Together Hawaii and Bay of Fundy cover 32,400 km², close to the size of Guinea-Bissau (32,800 km², 1.3% bigger).
The gap between them, 1,280 km², is about the size of São Tomé and Príncipe (1,040 km²).
Bay of Fundy's centre is 24.7° of latitude, about 2,750 km, farther north than Hawaii's.
Hawaii is a state of the United States; it is not drawn with its waters removed, and its measured area is the Natural Earth outline's.
The Bay of Fundy is a bay and ranks 39th of the 42 seas on sizeversus by area.
Laid out flat, Hawaii stretches about 373 km north to south and 563 km east to west; the Bay of Fundy about 201 km by 300 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	Hawaii	1.08×
Farther north	Bay of Fundy	24.7° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Bay of Fundy	2.0× against 1.1×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Hawaii	Bay of Fundy
Belgium 30,700 km²	0.55×	0.51×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.07×	0.06×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.05×	0.04×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.05×	0.04×
France 548,000 km²	0.03×	0.03×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.01×	1 in 202
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	1 in 503	1 in 544
United States 9,447,000 km²	1 in 561	1 in 607
Russia 16,980,000 km²	1 in 1,008	1 in 1,091

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

Side by side

	Hawaii	Bay of Fundy
Is a	StateUnited States	Baysea on sizeversus
Area, measured	16,800 km²6,510 mi²	15,600 km²6,010 mi²
Area, published	28,300 km²Wikidata	16,000 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	–	39th of 42seas
Greatest depth	–	150 mWikidata
Latitude range	19°N to 28°N	44°N to 46°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 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 Hawaii

Similar in size to Bay of Fundy

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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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