Baker Lake

The numbers

• 1,820km²Area, measured704 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 1,890km²Area, publishedWikidata · 3.4% above our measure
• 2mAbove sea levelSurface, Wikidata

The area is measured from the outline drawn above, on the WGS84 ellipsoid; the published figure is shown beside it, and a water body is kept only if the two are within 10%.

What the numbers say about Baker Lake

• The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 208× the size of Baker Lake; Baker Lake ranks 64th.
• Baker Lake sits between Namtso (1,880 km²) and Lac La Martre (1,740 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, Baker Lake would be larger than 36 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 177th by area, between Mauritius (2,000 km²) and the Comoros (1,670 km²).
• It is larger than 1 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Washington, D.C., 162 km²) and smaller than 50.
• It is smaller than every one of the 31 provinces and regions of China.
• The closest US state is Rhode Island (2,830 km²): Baker Lake is 64% of the size of Rhode Island.
• Its surface lies about 2 m above sea level (Wikidata).
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 64°N is drawn about 5.3× too large in area, so Baker Lake looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Baker Lake stretches about 42 km north to south and 103 km east to west.
• Our measured 1,820 km² is 3.4% below Wikidata’s published figure of 1,890 km². Published areas of lakes and seas move with the water level and with what is counted, so a few percent is expected.

About the same size as

On the shore

• Canada

Natural Earth’s outlines of Canada contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Baker Lake. That is what its geometry says, and it is not a statement about who owns the water or where any border runs in it.

Names

• Baker Lakethe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
• Bakeralso calledsource: Natural Earth