Beloye Lake

The numbers

• 1,100km²Area, measured425 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 1,130km²Area, publishedWikidata · 2.6% above our measure
• 33mGreatest depthaverage about 4.7 m
• 5.2km³VolumeWikidata
• 113mAbove 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 Beloye Lake

• The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 345× the size of Beloye Lake; Beloye Lake ranks 89th.
• Beloye Lake sits between Gods Lake (1,110 km²) and the Novosibirsk Reservoir (1,090 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, Beloye Lake would be larger than 35 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 178th by area, between the Comoros (1,670 km²) and São Tomé and Príncipe (1,040 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): Beloye Lake is 39% of the size of Rhode Island.
• Wikidata records a greatest depth of 33 m; with its volume that gives an average depth of about 4.7 m.
• Wikidata records a volume of 5 km³. Poured over São Tomé and Príncipe (1,040 km²), that water would stand 5.0 m deep.
• Its surface lies about 113 m above sea level (Wikidata).
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 60°N is drawn about 4.0× too large in area, so Beloye Lake looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Beloye Lake stretches about 31 km north to south and 45 km east to west.
• Our measured 1,100 km² is 2.6% below Wikidata’s published figure of 1,130 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

• Russia

Natural Earth’s outlines of Russia contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Beloye 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

• Beloye Lakethe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
• Beloealso calledsource: Natural Earth
• Lake Beloyealso calledsource: Natural Earth