Ungava Bay is 1.02× the size of Slovakia

The Ungava Bay (bay) covers about 49,600 km² (19,200 mi²) and Slovakia (country) about 48,500 km² (18,700 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.

49,600km²Ungava Bay
48,500km²Slovakia

100 km

Ungava Bay
Slovakia

What fits

Slovakia is 98% of the size of Ungava Bay.
Ungava Bay is larger by 1,160 km² (446 mi²), which is 2.4% of the area of Slovakia.
Measured in Belgiums: Ungava Bay is about 1.62, Slovakia about 1.58.

How they differ

Their centres are about 5,370 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Ungava Bay at 60°N is drawn about 3.9× too large and Slovakia at 49°N about 2.3×, so the map shows Ungava Bay as 1.74× the size of Slovakia instead of 1.02×.
Together Ungava Bay and Slovakia cover 98,100 km², close to the size of South Korea (98,500 km², 0.5% bigger).
The gap between them, 1,160 km², is about the size of São Tomé and Príncipe (1,040 km²).
Ungava Bay's centre is 10.8° of latitude, about 1,210 km, farther north than Slovakia's.
The Ungava Bay is a bay and ranks 32nd of the 42 seas on sizeversus by area.
Slovakia ranks 130th of 212 countries by area.
Laid out flat, the Ungava Bay stretches about 327 km north to south and 319 km east to west; Slovakia about 205 km by 418 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	Ungava Bay	1.02×
Farther north	Ungava Bay	10.8° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Ungava Bay	3.9× against 2.3×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Ungava Bay	Slovakia
Belgium 30,700 km²	1.62×	1.58×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.20×	0.20×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.14×	0.14×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.13×	0.13×
France 548,000 km²	0.09×	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 342	1 in 350

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

Side by side

	Ungava Bay	Slovakia
Is a	Baysea on sizeversus	CountryEurope
Area, measured	49,600 km²19,200 mi²	48,500 km²18,700 mi²
Area, published	50,000 km²Wikidata	49,000 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	32nd of 42seas	130th of 212countries
Greatest depth	150 mWikidata	–
Latitude range	58°N to 61°N	48°N to 50°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 Ungava Bay

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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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