Lagoa Mirim

The numbers

• 3,840km²Area, measured1,480 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 3,990km²Area, publishedWikidata · 3.8% above our measure
• 12mGreatest depthWikidata
• 1mAbove 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 Lagoa Mirim

• The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 98.7× the size of Lagoa Mirim; Lagoa Mirim ranks 41st.
• Lagoa Mirim sits between Dubawnt Lake (3,850 km²) and Sarygamysh Lake (3,820 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, Lagoa Mirim would be larger than 40 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 173rd by area, between Cape Verde (3,930 km²) and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (3,320 km²).
• It is larger than 2 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Rhode Island, 2,830 km²) and smaller than 49.
• It is smaller than every one of the 31 provinces and regions of China.
• The closest US state is Delaware (5,170 km²): Lagoa Mirim is 74% of the size of Delaware.
• Wikidata records a greatest depth of 12 m.
• Its surface lies about 1 m above sea level (Wikidata).
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 33°S is drawn about 1.4× too large in area, so Lagoa Mirim looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Lagoa Mirim stretches about 157 km north to south and 99 km east to west.
• Our measured 3,840 km² is 3.8% below Wikidata’s published figure of 3,990 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

• Brazil
• Uruguay

Natural Earth’s outlines of Brazil and Uruguay contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Lagoa Mirim. That is what its geometry says, and it is not a statement about who owns the water or where any border runs in it.