Khyargas Nuur

The numbers

• 1,350km²Area, measured523 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 1,410km²Area, publishedWikidata · 3.8% above our measure
• 80mGreatest depthaverage about 48.7 m
• 66km³VolumeWikidata
• 1,028mAbove 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 Khyargas Nuur

• The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 280× the size of Khyargas Nuur; Khyargas Nuur ranks 76th.
• Khyargas Nuur sits between Lake Sevan (1,380 km²) and Vygozero (1,350 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, Khyargas Nuur 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): Khyargas Nuur is 48% of the size of Rhode Island.
• Wikidata records a greatest depth of 80 m; with its volume that gives an average depth of about 49 m.
• Wikidata records a volume of 66 km³. Poured over the Comoros (1,670 km²), that water would stand 39 m deep.
• Its surface lies about 1,028 m above sea level (Wikidata).
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 49°N is drawn about 2.3× too large in area, so Khyargas Nuur looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Khyargas Nuur stretches about 43 km north to south and 73 km east to west.
• Our measured 1,350 km² is 3.8% below Wikidata’s published figure of 1,410 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

• Mongolia

Natural Earth’s outlines of Mongolia contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Khyargas Nuur. 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

• Khyargas Nuurthe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
• Khyargas Lakealso calledsource: Natural Earth