Lake
Lake Mweru
Natural Earth’s outline of Lake Mweru measures about 5,040 km² (1,940 mi²), the 30th largest of the 104 lakes on sizeversus, and about the same size as Trinidad and Tobago.
50 km
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Lake Mweru
The numbers
- 5,040km²Area, measured1,940 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 4,650km²Area, publishedWikidata · 8.3% below our measure, flagged
- 37mGreatest depthaverage about 7.5 m
- 38km³VolumeWikidata
- 927mAbove 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 Mweru
- The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 75.3× the size of Lake Mweru; Lake Mweru ranks 30th.
- Lake Mweru sits between Lake Torrens (5,150 km²) and Lake Manitoba (4,840 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Lake Mweru 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 Mweru is about the same size as Delaware.
- Wikidata records a greatest depth of 37 m; with its volume that gives an average depth of about 7.5 m.
- Wikidata records a volume of 38 km³. Poured over Trinidad and Tobago (5,120 km²), that water would stand 7.4 m deep.
- Its surface lies about 927 m above sea level (Wikidata).
- Lake Mweru lies at 9°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 Mweru stretches about 117 km north to south and 92 km east to west.
- Our measured 5,040 km² is 8.3% above Wikidata’s published figure of 4,650 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.
About the same size as
Countries
Chinese provinces
On the shore
Natural Earth’s outlines of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Lake Mweru. 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 Mweruthe name in this page’s titlesource: Size Versus (Wikidata’s English label is “Lake Mweru”)
- Mwerualso calledsource: Natural Earth
- Lac Moerualso calledsource: Natural Earth
Where Lake Mweru ranks
Lake Mweru is the 30th 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