Lebanon is 1.24× the size of Lake Athabasca

Lebanon (country) covers about 10,000 km² (3,860 mi²) and Lake Athabasca (lake) about 8,090 km² (3,120 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Lake Athabasca outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

10,000km²Lebanon
8,090km²Lake Athabasca

50 km

Lebanon
Lake Athabasca

What fits

Lake Athabasca is 81% of the size of Lebanon.
Lebanon is larger by 1,910 km² (739 mi²), which is 24% of the area of Lake Athabasca.
Measured in Belgiums: Lebanon is about 0.33, Lake Athabasca about 0.26.

How they differ

Their centres are about 9,180 km apart.
On a standard web map Lake Athabasca looks larger than Lebanon: Lebanon at 34°N is drawn about 1.5× too large and Lake Athabasca at 59°N about 3.8×, so the map shows Lake Athabasca as 2.12× the size of Lebanon, when Lebanon is 1.24× the size of Lake Athabasca.
Together Lebanon and Lake Athabasca cover 18,100 km², close to the size of Kuwait (17,500 km², 3.4% smaller).
The gap between them, 1,910 km², is about the size of Mauritius (2,000 km²).
Lake Athabasca's centre is 25.3° of latitude, about 2,810 km, farther north than Lebanon's.
Lebanon ranks 167th of 212 countries by area.
Lake Athabasca is a lake and ranks 19th of the 104 lakes on sizeversus by area.
Laid out flat, Lebanon stretches about 181 km north to south and 139 km east to west; Lake Athabasca about 125 km by 303 km.
Poured over Lebanon, the 204 km³ that Wikidata records for Lake Athabasca would stand 20 m deep.
Our measured 8,090 km² is 3.1% above Wikidata’s published figure of 7,850 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	Lebanon	1.24×
Farther north	Lake Athabasca	25.3° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Lake Athabasca	3.8× against 1.5×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Lebanon	Lake Athabasca
Belgium 30,700 km²	0.33×	0.26×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.04×	0.03×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.03×	0.02×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.03×	0.02×
France 548,000 km²	0.02×	0.01×
India 3,151,000 km²	1 in 315	1 in 389
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	1 in 847	1 in 1,047
United States 9,447,000 km²	1 in 944	1 in 1,168
Russia 16,980,000 km²	1 in 1,697	1 in 2,099

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

Side by side

	Lebanon	Lake Athabasca
Is a	CountryAsia	Lakelake on sizeversus
Area, measured	10,000 km²3,860 mi²	8,090 km²3,120 mi²
Area, published	10,500 km²Wikidata	7,850 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	167th of 212countries	19th of 104lakes
Greatest depth	–	243 mWikidata
Volume	–	204 km³
Latitude range	33°N to 35°N	58°N to 60°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 Athabasca. 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 Lebanon

Similar in size to Lake Athabasca

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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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