Lake Huron is 1.05× the size of Togo

Lake Huron (lake) covers about 59,900 km² (23,100 mi²) and Togo (country) about 56,900 km² (22,000 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Lake Huron outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

59,900km²Lake Huron
56,900km²Togo

100 km

Lake Huron
Togo

What fits

Togo is 95% of the size of Lake Huron.
Lake Huron is larger by 3,070 km² (1,190 mi²), which is 5.4% of the area of Togo.
Measured in Belgiums: Lake Huron is about 1.95, Togo about 1.85.

How they differ

Their centres are about 8,810 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Lake Huron at 45°N is drawn about 2.0× too large and Togo at 9°N about 1.0×, so the map shows Lake Huron as 2.06× the size of Togo instead of 1.05×.
Together Lake Huron and Togo cover 117,000 km², close to the size of Benin (116,000 km², 0.6% smaller).
The gap between them, 3,070 km², is about the size of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (3,320 km²).
Lake Huron's centre is 36.4° of latitude, about 4,050 km, farther north than Togo's.
Lake Huron is a lake and ranks 4th of the 104 lakes on sizeversus by area.
Togo ranks 126th of 212 countries by area.
Laid out flat, Lake Huron stretches about 373 km north to south and 400 km east to west; Togo about 560 km by 214 km.
Poured over Togo, the 3,538 km³ that Wikidata records for Lake Huron would stand 62 m deep.
Wikidata’s published figure of 59,600 km² agrees with our measured 59,900 km², to within 2%.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Lake Huron	1.05×
Farther north	Lake Huron	36.4° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Lake Huron	2.0× against 1.0×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Lake Huron	Togo
Belgium 30,700 km²	1.95×	1.85×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.25×	0.23×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.17×	0.16×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.16×	0.15×
France 548,000 km²	0.11×	0.10×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.02×	0.02×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	1 in 283	1 in 299

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

Side by side

	Lake Huron	Togo
Is a	Lakelake on sizeversus	CountryAfrica
Area, measured	59,900 km²23,100 mi²	56,900 km²22,000 mi²
Area, published	59,600 km²Wikidata	56,800 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	4th of 104lakes	126th of 212countries
Greatest depth	230 mWikidata	–
Volume	3,538 km³	–
Latitude range	43°N to 46°N	6°N to 11°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 contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Lake Huron. 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 Lake Huron

Similar in size to Togo

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