Lake Nicaragua

The numbers

• 7,820km²Area, measured3,020 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 8,260km²Area, publishedWikidata · 5.3% above our measure, flagged
• 60mGreatest depthaverage about 13.8 m
• 108km³VolumeWikidata
• 32mAbove 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 Nicaragua

• The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 48.5× the size of Lake Nicaragua; Lake Nicaragua ranks 21st.
• Lake Nicaragua sits between Lake Volta (7,960 km²) and the Smallwood Reservoir (7,030 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, Lake Nicaragua would be larger than 45 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 168th by area, between Lebanon (10,000 km²) and Palestine (6,070 km²).
• It is larger than 3 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Delaware, 5,170 km²) and smaller than 48.
• It is larger than 1 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Shanghai, 6,750 km²) and smaller than 30.
• The closest Chinese province is Shanghai (6,750 km²): Lake Nicaragua is 1.16× the size of Shanghai.
• Wikidata records a greatest depth of 60 m; with its volume that gives an average depth of about 14 m.
• Wikidata records a volume of 108 km³. Poured over Belgium (30,700 km²), that water would stand 3.5 m deep.
• Its surface lies about 32 m above sea level (Wikidata).
• Lake Nicaragua lies at 12°N, 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 Nicaragua stretches about 121 km north to south and 128 km east to west.
• Our measured 7,820 km² is 5.3% below Wikidata’s published figure of 8,260 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

On the shore

• Nicaragua

Natural Earth’s outlines of Nicaragua contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Lake Nicaragua. 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 Nicaraguathe name in this page’s titlesource: Size Versus (Wikidata’s English label is “Lake Nicaragua”)
• Nicaraguaalso calledsource: Natural Earth
• Lago de Nicaraguaalso calledsource: Natural Earth