Lake
Lake Edward
Natural Earth’s outline of Lake Edward measures about 2,210 km² (853 mi²), the 55th largest of the 104 lakes on sizeversus, and 1.10× the size of Mauritius.
200 km
- Lake Edward
- Mauritius
The numbers
- 2,210km²Area, measured853 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 2,150km²Area, publishedWikidata · 2.8% below our measure
- 117mGreatest depthaverage about 17.9 m
- 39.5km³VolumeWikidata
- 912mAbove 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 Edward
- The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 172× the size of Lake Edward; Lake Edward ranks 55th.
- Lake Edward sits between Réservoir La Grande 3 (2,240 km²) and the Manicouagan Reservoir (2,120 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Lake Edward 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 Edward is 78% of the size of Rhode Island.
- Wikidata records a greatest depth of 117 m; with its volume that gives an average depth of about 18 m.
- Wikidata records a volume of 40 km³. Poured over Mauritius (2,000 km²), that water would stand 20 m deep.
- Its surface lies about 912 m above sea level (Wikidata).
- Lake Edward lies at 0°S, 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 Edward stretches about 69 km north to south and 66 km east to west.
- Our measured 2,210 km² is 2.8% above Wikidata’s published figure of 2,150 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
On the shore
Natural Earth’s outlines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Lake Edward. 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 Edwardthe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
- Edwardalso calledsource: Natural Earth
Where Lake Edward ranks
Lake Edward is the 55th 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