Bosten Lake

The numbers

• 1,000km²Area, measured388 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 1,010km²Area, publishedWikidata · agrees within 2%
• 17mGreatest depthaverage about 7.7 m
• 7.7km³VolumeWikidata
• 1,048mAbove 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 Bosten Lake

• The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 378× the size of Bosten Lake; Bosten Lake ranks 99th.
• Bosten Lake sits between Lake Abitibi (1,020 km²) and Hottah Lake (932 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, Bosten Lake would be larger than 33 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 180th by area, between Hong Kong (1,040 km²) and Åland (942 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): Bosten Lake is 35% of the size of Rhode Island.
• Wikidata records a greatest depth of 17 m; with its volume that gives an average depth of about 7.7 m.
• Wikidata records a volume of 8 km³. Poured over Hong Kong (1,040 km²), that water would stand 7.4 m deep.
• Its surface lies about 1,048 m above sea level (Wikidata).
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 42°N is drawn about 1.8× too large in area, so Bosten Lake looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Bosten Lake stretches about 34 km north to south and 63 km east to west.
• Wikidata’s published figure of 1,010 km² agrees with our measured 1,000 km², to within 2%.

About the same size as

On the shore

• China

Natural Earth’s outlines of China contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Bosten 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

• Bosten Lakethe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
• Bostenalso calledsource: Natural Earth
• Bosten Hualso calledsource: Natural Earth