Lake
Lake Albert
Natural Earth’s outline of Lake Albert measures about 5,380 km² (2,080 mi²), the 27th largest of the 104 lakes on sizeversus, and about the same size as Cyprus.
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The numbers
- 5,380km²Area, measured2,080 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 5,270km²Area, publishedWikidata · 2.1% below our measure
- 58mGreatest depthaverage about 24.5 m
- 132km³VolumeWikidata
- 619mAbove 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 Lake Albert
- The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 70.5× the size of Lake Albert; Lake Albert ranks 27th.
- Lake Albert sits between Nettilling Lake (5,450 km²) and Lake Winnipegosis (5,360 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Lake Albert would be larger than 42 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 171st by area, between Cyprus (5,400 km²) and Trinidad and Tobago (5,120 km²).
- It is larger than 3 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Delaware, 5,170 km²) and smaller than 48.
- It is smaller than every one of the 31 provinces and regions of China.
- The closest US state is Delaware (5,170 km²): Lake Albert is 1.04× the size of Delaware.
- Wikidata records a greatest depth of 58 m; with its volume that gives an average depth of about 25 m.
- Wikidata records a volume of 132 km³. Poured over Cyprus (5,400 km²), that water would stand 24 m deep.
- Its surface lies about 619 m above sea level (Wikidata).
- Lake Albert lies at 2°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
- Laid out flat, Lake Albert stretches about 155 km north to south and 121 km east to west.
- Our measured 5,380 km² is 2.1% above Wikidata’s published figure of 5,270 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
Countries
Chinese provinces
On the shore
Natural Earth’s outlines of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Lake Albert. 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
- Lake Albertthe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
- Albertalso calledsource: Natural Earth
Where Lake Albert ranks
Lake Albert is the 27th 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