Kakhovka Reservoir

The numbers

• 2,050km²Area, measured792 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 2,160km²Area, publishedWikidata · 4.8% above our measure
• 26mGreatest depthaverage about 8.9 m
• 18.2km³VolumeWikidata
• 44mAbove 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 the Kakhovka Reservoir

• The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 185× the size of the Kakhovka Reservoir; the Kakhovka Reservoir ranks 58th.
• The Kakhovka Reservoir sits between Lake Barlee (2,100 km²) and the Kama Reservoir (2,040 km²) in the ranking.
• It is a reservoir, made by a dam, and the 6th largest of the 14 reservoirs in this ranking.
• Counted as a country, the Kakhovka Reservoir would be larger than 37 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 176th by area, between Luxembourg (2,610 km²) and Mauritius (2,000 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): the Kakhovka Reservoir is 72% of the size of Rhode Island.
• Wikidata records a greatest depth of 26 m; with its volume that gives an average depth of about 8.9 m.
• Wikidata records a volume of 18 km³. Poured over Mauritius (2,000 km²), that water would stand 9.1 m deep.
• Its surface lies about 44 m above sea level (Wikidata).
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 47°N is drawn about 2.2× too large in area, so the Kakhovka Reservoir looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, the Kakhovka Reservoir stretches about 113 km north to south and 135 km east to west.
• Our measured 2,050 km² is 4.8% below Wikidata’s published figure of 2,160 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

• Ukraine

Natural Earth’s outlines of Ukraine contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of the Kakhovka Reservoir. 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

• Kakhovka Reservoirthe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
• Kakhovkaalso calledsource: Natural Earth