Lake Albert is 1.04× the size of Delaware

Lake Albert (lake) covers about 5,380 km² (2,080 mi²) and Delaware (state) about 5,170 km² (2,000 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Lake Albert outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

5,380km²Lake Albert
5,170km²Delaware

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Lake Albert
Delaware

What fits

Delaware is 96% of the size of Lake Albert.
Lake Albert is larger by 209 km² (80.7 mi²), which is 4.0% of the area of Delaware.
Measured in Belgiums: Lake Albert is about 0.18, Delaware about 0.17.

How they differ

Their centres are about 11,300 km apart.
On a standard web map Delaware looks larger than Lake Albert: Lake Albert at 2°N is drawn about 1.0× too large and Delaware at 39°N about 1.7×, so the map shows Delaware as 1.59× the size of Lake Albert, when Lake Albert is 1.04× the size of Delaware.
Together Lake Albert and Delaware cover 10,600 km², close to the size of Gambia (10,500 km², 0.5% smaller).
The gap between them, 209 km², is about the size of Aruba (170 km²).
Delaware's centre is 37.4° of latitude, about 4,150 km, farther north than Lake Albert's.
Lake Albert is a lake and ranks 27th of the 104 lakes on sizeversus by area.
Delaware 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.
Laid out flat, Lake Albert stretches about 155 km north to south and 121 km east to west; Delaware about 154 km by 65 km.
Poured over Delaware, the 132 km³ that Wikidata records for Lake Albert would stand 26 m deep.
Our measured 5,380 km² is 2.1% above Wikidata’s published figure of 5,270 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	Lake Albert	1.04×
Farther north	Delaware	37.4° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Delaware	1.7× against 1.0×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Lake Albert	Delaware
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 586	1 in 609
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	1 in 1,575	1 in 1,638
United States 9,447,000 km²	1 in 1,756	1 in 1,827
Russia 16,980,000 km²	1 in 3,156	1 in 3,283

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

Side by side

	Lake Albert	Delaware
Is a	Lakelake on sizeversus	StateUnited States
Area, measured	5,380 km²2,080 mi²	5,170 km²2,000 mi²
Area, published	5,270 km²Wikidata	6,450 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	27th of 104lakes	–
Greatest depth	58 mWikidata	–
Volume	132 km³	–
Latitude range	1°N to 2°N	38°N to 40°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 Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Lake Albert. 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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