Khar-Us Lake

The numbers

• 1,550km²Area, measured600 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 1,580km²Area, publishedWikidata · agrees within 2%
• 4.5mGreatest depthaverage about 2 m
• 3.1km³VolumeWikidata
• 1,157mAbove 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 Khar-Us Lake

• The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 244× the size of Khar-Us Lake; Khar-Us Lake ranks 69th.
• Khar-Us Lake sits between Siling Lake (1,580 km²) and Lac Seul (1,520 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, Khar-Us 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): Khar-Us Lake is 55% of the size of Rhode Island.
• Wikidata records a greatest depth of 5 m; with its volume that gives an average depth of about 2.0 m.
• Wikidata records a volume of 3 km³. Poured over the Comoros (1,670 km²), that water would stand 1.9 m deep.
• Its surface lies about 1,157 m above sea level (Wikidata).
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 48°N is drawn about 2.2× too large in area, so Khar-Us Lake looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Khar-Us Lake stretches about 68 km north to south and 64 km east to west.
• Wikidata’s published figure of 1,580 km² agrees with our measured 1,550 km², to within 2%.

About the same size as

On the shore

• Mongolia

Natural Earth’s outlines of Mongolia contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Khar-Us 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

• Khar-Us Lakethe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
• Khar-Usalso calledsource: Natural Earth
• Har Us Nuuralso calledsource: Natural Earth