Lake Chany

The numbers

• 2,040km²Area, measured788 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 2,000km²Area, publishedWikidata · 2.0% below our measure
• 7mGreatest depthaverage about 2.1 m
• 4.3km³VolumeWikidata
• 106mAbove 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 Chany

• The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 186× the size of Lake Chany; Lake Chany ranks 60th.
• Lake Chany sits between the Kama Reservoir (2,040 km²) and Vättern (1,960 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, Lake Chany 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 Chany is 72% of the size of Rhode Island.
• Wikidata records a greatest depth of 7 m; with its volume that gives an average depth of about 2.1 m.
• Wikidata records a volume of 4 km³. Poured over Mauritius (2,000 km²), that water would stand 2.1 m deep.
• Its surface lies about 106 m above sea level (Wikidata).
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 55°N is drawn about 3.0× too large in area, so Lake Chany looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Lake Chany stretches about 52 km north to south and 87 km east to west.
• Our measured 2,040 km² is 2.0% above Wikidata’s published figure of 2,000 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

• Russia

Natural Earth’s outlines of Russia contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Lake Chany. 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 Chanythe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
• Chanyalso calledsource: Natural Earth