Lake Saint Clair

The numbers

• 1,150km²Area, measured443 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 1,110km²Area, publishedWikidata · 3.0% below our measure
• 3.4mGreatest depthaverage about 3 m
• 3.4km³VolumeWikidata
• 175mAbove 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 Saint Clair

• The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 330× the size of Lake Saint Clair; Lake Saint Clair ranks 83rd.
• Lake Saint Clair sits between Lesser Slave Lake (1,200 km²) and Lake Toba (1,140 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, Lake Saint Clair would be larger than 35 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 178th by area, between the Comoros (1,670 km²) and São Tomé and Príncipe (1,040 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 Saint Clair is 41% of the size of Rhode Island.
• Wikidata records a greatest depth of 3 m; with its volume that gives an average depth of about 3.0 m.
• Wikidata records a volume of 3 km³. Poured over São Tomé and Príncipe (1,040 km²), that water would stand 3.3 m deep.
• Its surface lies about 175 m above sea level (Wikidata).
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 42°N is drawn about 1.8× too large in area, so Lake Saint Clair looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Lake Saint Clair stretches about 44 km north to south and 55 km east to west.
• Our measured 1,150 km² is 3.0% above Wikidata’s published figure of 1,110 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

On the shore

• Canada
• United States

Natural Earth’s outlines of Canada and the United States contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Lake Saint Clair. 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 Saint Clairthe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
• Great Lakesalso calledsource: Natural Earth
• Saint Clairalso calledsource: Natural Earth