Savu Sea is 1.01× the size of Zhejiang

The Savu Sea (sea) covers about 102,000 km² (39,400 mi²) and Zhejiang (province) about 101,000 km² (39,100 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Savu Sea outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

102,000km²Savu Sea
101,000km²Zhejiang

200 km

Savu Sea
Zhejiang

What fits

Zhejiang is 99% of the size of Savu Sea.
Savu Sea is larger by 634 km² (245 mi²), which is 0.6% of the area of Zhejiang.
Measured in Belgiums: Savu Sea is about 3.32, Zhejiang about 3.30.

How they differ

Their centres are about 4,300 km apart.
On a standard web map Zhejiang looks larger than Savu Sea: Savu Sea at 9°S is drawn about 1.0× too large and Zhejiang at 29°N about 1.3×, so the map shows Zhejiang as 1.27× the size of Savu Sea, when Savu Sea is 1.01× the size of Zhejiang.
Together Savu Sea and Zhejiang cover 203,000 km², close to the size of Belarus (207,000 km², 2.1% bigger).
Zhejiang's centre is 38.7° of latitude, about 4,300 km, farther north than Savu Sea's.
The Savu Sea is a sea and ranks 29th of the 42 seas on sizeversus by area.
Zhejiang is a province of China; it is not drawn with its waters removed, and its measured area is the Natural Earth outline's.
Laid out flat, the Savu Sea stretches about 287 km north to south and 730 km east to west; Zhejiang about 444 km by 427 km.
Our measured 102,000 km² is 2.9% below Wikidata’s published figure of 105,000 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	Savu Sea	1.01×
Farther north	Zhejiang	38.7° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Zhejiang	1.3× against 1.0×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Savu Sea	Zhejiang
Belgium 30,700 km²	3.32×	3.30×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.42×	0.42×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.29×	0.28×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.27×	0.27×
France 548,000 km²	0.19×	0.18×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.03×	0.03×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×

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

Side by side

	Savu Sea	Zhejiang
Is a	Seasea on sizeversus	ProvinceChina
Area, measured	102,000 km²39,400 mi²	101,000 km²39,100 mi²
Area, published	105,000 km²Wikidata	102,000 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	29th of 42seas	–
Greatest depth	3,470 mWikidata	–
Latitude range	11°S to 8°S	27°N to 31°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 Indonesia and East Timor lie within 25 km of the outline of the Savu Sea. 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 Savu Sea

Similar in size to Zhejiang

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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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