Lake
Hottah Lake
Natural Earth’s outline of Hottah Lake measures about 932 km² (360 mi²), the 100th largest of the 104 lakes on sizeversus, and 90% of the size of Hong Kong.
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- Hong Kong
- Hottah Lake
The numbers
- 932km²Area, measured360 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 918km²Area, publishedWikidata · agrees within 2%
- 180mAbove 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 Hottah Lake
- The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 407× the size of Hottah Lake; Hottah Lake ranks 100th.
- Hottah Lake sits between Bosten Lake (1,000 km²) and Lake Nipissing (910 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Hottah Lake would be larger than 32 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 181st by area, between Åland (942 km²) and Dominica (730 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.
- Its surface lies about 180 m above sea level (Wikidata).
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 65°N is drawn about 5.6× too large in area, so Hottah Lake looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Hottah Lake stretches about 60 km north to south and 37 km east to west.
- Wikidata’s published figure of 918 km² agrees with our measured 932 km², to within 2%.
About the same size as
Countries
On the shore
Natural Earth’s outlines of Canada contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Hottah 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
- Hottah Lakethe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
- Hottahalso calledsource: Natural Earth
Where Hottah Lake ranks
Hottah Lake is the 100th largest of the 104 lakes on sizeversus, ranked by measured area.
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Sources and method
- Outline
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Lakes + Reservoirs, public domain (Lakes + Reservoirs). Outlines of lakes are drawn at 1:10 million.
- Boundary
- A lake or a sea has no legal boundary of its own. The outline is a cartographic one, and the page says so by showing the measured area beside the published one.
- Area basis
- Measured outline: computed on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline and shown rounded. Published figure: Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-11. An outline is kept within 10% of the published figure and matched to other places automatically within 5%.
- Depth, volume, height
- As recorded in Wikidata; a volume that cannot be right for the area and depth is left out.
- Shore
- Countries whose Natural Earth outline contains or comes close to the water's outline; computed, not a statement of ownership.
- Drawing
- Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and two can be laid over each other.
- Data built
- 2026-11-11