Sea of Azov is 1.01× the size of Netherlands

The Sea of Azov (sea) covers about 37,600 km² (14,500 mi²) and the Netherlands (country) about 37,100 km² (14,300 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Sea of Azov outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

37,600km²Sea of Azov
37,100km²Netherlands

100 km

Sea of Azov
Netherlands

What fits

Netherlands is 99% of the size of Sea of Azov.
Sea of Azov is larger by 465 km² (179 mi²), which is 1.3% of the area of Netherlands.
Measured in Belgiums: Sea of Azov is about 1.22, Netherlands about 1.21.

How they differ

Their centres are about 2,350 km apart.
On a standard web map Netherlands looks larger than Sea of Azov: Sea of Azov at 46°N is drawn about 2.1× too large and Netherlands at 52°N about 2.7×, so the map shows Netherlands as 1.26× the size of Sea of Azov, when Sea of Azov is 1.01× the size of Netherlands.
Together Sea of Azov and Netherlands cover 74,700 km², close to the size of Panama (74,500 km², 0.2% smaller).
The gap between them, 465 km², is about the size of Curaçao (463 km²).
Netherlands's centre is 6.1° of latitude, about 680 km, farther north than Sea of Azov's.
The Sea of Azov is a sea and ranks 34th of the 42 seas on sizeversus by area.
Netherlands ranks 136th of 212 countries by area.
Laid out flat, the Sea of Azov stretches about 225 km north to south and 339 km east to west; the Netherlands about 307 km by 263 km.
Poured over the Netherlands, the 6 km³ that Wikidata records for the Sea of Azov would stand 0.2 m deep.
Wikidata’s published figure of 37,600 km² agrees with our measured 37,600 km², to within 2%.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Sea of Azov	1.01×
Farther north	Netherlands	6.1° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Netherlands	2.7× against 2.1×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Sea of Azov	Netherlands
Belgium 30,700 km²	1.22×	1.21×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.15×	0.15×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.11×	0.10×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.10×	0.10×
France 548,000 km²	0.07×	0.07×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	1 in 226	1 in 228
United States 9,447,000 km²	1 in 251	1 in 255
Russia 16,980,000 km²	1 in 452	1 in 458

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

Side by side

	Sea of Azov	Netherlands
Is a	Seasea on sizeversus	CountryEurope
Area, measured	37,600 km²14,500 mi²	37,100 km²14,300 mi²
Area, published	37,600 km²Wikidata	37,400 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	34th of 42seas	136th of 212countries
Greatest depth	15 mWikidata	–
Volume	6 km³	–
Latitude range	45°N to 47°N	51°N to 54°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 Russia and Ukraine lie within 25 km of the outline of the Sea of Azov. 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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