Lake
Lake Nipissing
Natural Earth’s outline of Lake Nipissing measures about 910 km² (351 mi²), the 101st largest of the 104 lakes on sizeversus, and 88% of the size of Hong Kong.
20 km
- Hong Kong
- Lake Nipissing
The numbers
- 910km²Area, measured351 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 873km²Area, publishedWikidata · 4.2% below our measure
- 52mGreatest depthaverage about 4.2 m
- 3.8km³VolumeWikidata
- 196mAbove 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 Nipissing
- The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 417× the size of Lake Nipissing; Lake Nipissing ranks 101st.
- Lake Nipissing sits between Hottah Lake (932 km²) and Lake Balaton (545 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Lake Nipissing would be larger than 32 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 181st by area, between Åland (942 km²) and Dominica (730 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.
- Wikidata records a greatest depth of 52 m; with its volume that gives an average depth of about 4.2 m.
- Wikidata records a volume of 4 km³. Poured over Hong Kong (1,040 km²), that water would stand 3.7 m deep.
- Its surface lies about 196 m above sea level (Wikidata).
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 46°N is drawn about 2.1× too large in area, so Lake Nipissing looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Lake Nipissing stretches about 27 km north to south and 85 km east to west.
- Our measured 910 km² is 4.2% above Wikidata’s published figure of 873 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 Canada contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Lake Nipissing. 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 Nipissingthe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
- Nipissingalso calledsource: Natural Earth
Where Lake Nipissing ranks
Lake Nipissing is the 101st 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