Alkaline lake
Lake Frome
Natural Earth’s outline of Lake Frome measures about 2,580 km² (996 mi²), the 50th largest of the 104 lakes on sizeversus, and about the same size as Luxembourg.
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- Lake Frome
The numbers
- 2,580km²Area, measured996 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 2,600km²Area, publishedWikidata · agrees within 2%
- 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 Lake Frome
- The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 147× the size of Lake Frome; Lake Frome ranks 50th.
- Lake Frome sits between Iliamna Lake (2,690 km²) and Tonle Sap (2,540 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Lake Frome 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 Frome is 91% of the size of Rhode Island.
- Its surface lies about 1 m above sea level (Wikidata).
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 31°S is drawn about 1.4× too large in area, so Lake Frome looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Lake Frome stretches about 97 km north to south and 54 km east to west.
- Wikidata’s published figure of 2,600 km² agrees with our measured 2,580 km², to within 2%.
About the same size as
Countries
Chinese provinces
On the shore
Natural Earth’s outlines of Australia contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Lake Frome. 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 Fromethe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
- Fromealso calledsource: Natural Earth
Where Lake Frome ranks
Lake Frome is the 50th 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