Ningxia is 1.05× the size of Ungava Bay

Ningxia (autonomous region) covers about 52,100 km² (20,100 mi²) and the Ungava Bay (bay) about 49,600 km² (19,200 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Ungava Bay outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

52,100km²Ningxia
49,600km²Ungava Bay

100 km

Ningxia
Ungava Bay

What fits

Ungava Bay is 95% of the size of Ningxia.
Ningxia is larger by 2,520 km² (974 mi²), which is 5.1% of the area of Ungava Bay.
Measured in Belgiums: Ningxia is about 1.70, Ungava Bay about 1.62.

How they differ

Their centres are about 9,230 km apart.
On a standard web map Ungava Bay looks larger than Ningxia: Ningxia at 37°N is drawn about 1.6× too large and Ungava Bay at 60°N about 3.9×, so the map shows Ungava Bay as 2.35× the size of Ningxia, when Ningxia is 1.05× the size of Ungava Bay.
Together Ningxia and Ungava Bay cover 102,000 km², close to the size of Iceland (102,000 km², 0.6% bigger).
The gap between them, 2,520 km², is about the size of Luxembourg (2,610 km²).
Ungava Bay's centre is 22.3° of latitude, about 2,480 km, farther north than Ningxia's.
Ningxia is an autonomous region of China; it is not drawn with its waters removed, and its measured area is the Natural Earth outline's.
The Ungava Bay is a bay and ranks 32nd of the 42 seas on sizeversus by area.
Laid out flat, Ningxia stretches about 458 km north to south and 291 km east to west; the Ungava Bay about 327 km by 319 km.
Wikidata’s published figure of 50,000 km² agrees with our measured 49,600 km², to within 2%.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Ningxia	1.05×
Farther north	Ungava Bay	22.3° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Ungava Bay	3.9× against 1.6×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Ningxia	Ungava Bay
Belgium 30,700 km²	1.70×	1.62×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.21×	0.20×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.15×	0.14×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.14×	0.13×
France 548,000 km²	0.10×	0.09×
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 326	1 in 342

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

Side by side

	Ningxia	Ungava Bay
Is a	Autonomous RegionChina	Baysea on sizeversus
Area, measured	52,100 km²20,100 mi²	49,600 km²19,200 mi²
Area, published	52,200 km²Wikidata	50,000 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	–	32nd of 42seas
Greatest depth	–	150 mWikidata
Latitude range	35°N to 39°N	58°N to 61°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 lie within 25 km of the outline of the Ungava Bay. 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 Ningxia

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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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