Alkaline lake
Lake Barlee
Natural Earth’s outline of Lake Barlee measures about 2,100 km² (810 mi²), the 57th largest of the 104 lakes on sizeversus, and 1.05× the size of Mauritius.
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- Lake Barlee
- Mauritius
The numbers
- 2,100km²Area, measured810 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 1,980km²Area, publishedWikidata · 6.0% below our measure, flagged
- 400mAbove 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%. This one is between 5% and 10% apart, so it is flagged and no comparison is built for it automatically.
What the numbers say about Lake Barlee
- The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 181× the size of Lake Barlee; Lake Barlee ranks 57th.
- Lake Barlee sits between the Manicouagan Reservoir (2,120 km²) and the Kakhovka Reservoir (2,050 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Lake Barlee 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): Lake Barlee is 74% of the size of Rhode Island.
- Its surface lies about 400 m above sea level (Wikidata).
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 29°S is drawn about 1.3× too large in area, so Lake Barlee looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Lake Barlee stretches about 79 km north to south and 89 km east to west.
- Our measured 2,100 km² is 6.0% above Wikidata’s published figure of 1,980 km². This difference is flagged for review: a lake’s outline may include islands or bays that the published figure leaves out, or the water level may differ. The outline is kept because it is within 10%, and this page is not matched automatically to any other.
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Countries
On the shore
Natural Earth’s outlines of Australia contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Lake Barlee. 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 Barleethe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
- Barleealso calledsource: Natural Earth
Where Lake Barlee ranks
Lake Barlee is the 57th 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