Lake
Lake Khanka
Natural Earth’s outline of Lake Khanka measures about 4,050 km² (1,560 mi²), the 39th largest of the 104 lakes on sizeversus, and 1.03× the size of Cape Verde.
50 km
- Lake Khanka
- Cape Verde
The numbers
- 4,050km²Area, measured1,560 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 4,190km²Area, publishedWikidata · 3.5% above our measure
- 10.6mGreatest depthaverage about 4.5 m
- 18.3km³VolumeWikidata
- 69mAbove 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 Khanka
- The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 93.8× the size of Lake Khanka; Lake Khanka ranks 39th.
- Lake Khanka sits between Great Salt Lake (4,120 km²) and Dubawnt Lake (3,850 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Lake Khanka would be larger than 41 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 172nd by area, between Trinidad and Tobago (5,120 km²) and Cape Verde (3,930 km²).
- It is larger than 2 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Rhode Island, 2,830 km²) and smaller than 49.
- It is smaller than every one of the 31 provinces and regions of China.
- The closest US state is Delaware (5,170 km²): Lake Khanka is 78% of the size of Delaware.
- Wikidata records a greatest depth of 11 m; with its volume that gives an average depth of about 4.5 m.
- Wikidata records a volume of 18 km³. Poured over Cape Verde (3,930 km²), that water would stand 4.7 m deep.
- Its surface lies about 69 m above sea level (Wikidata).
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 45°N is drawn about 2.0× too large in area, so Lake Khanka looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Lake Khanka stretches about 90 km north to south and 67 km east to west.
- Our measured 4,050 km² is 3.5% below Wikidata’s published figure of 4,190 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 Russia and China contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Lake Khanka. 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 Khankathe name in this page’s titlesource: Size Versus (Wikidata’s English label is “Khanka”)
- Xingkai Hualso calledsource: Natural Earth
- Ozero Khankaalso calledsource: Natural Earth
- Khankaalso calledsource: Natural Earth
Where Lake Khanka ranks
Lake Khanka is the 39th 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