Lake
Lake Titicaca
Natural Earth’s outline of Lake Titicaca measures about 8,110 km² (3,130 mi²), the 18th largest of the 104 lakes on sizeversus, and 81% of the size of Lebanon.
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The numbers
- 8,110km²Area, measured3,130 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 8,370km²Area, publishedWikidata · 3.2% above our measure
- 489mGreatest depthaverage about 110 m
- 893km³VolumeWikidata
- 3,812mAbove 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 Titicaca
- The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 46.8× the size of Lake Titicaca; Lake Titicaca ranks 18th.
- Lake Titicaca sits between Lake Onega (9,950 km²) and Lake Athabasca (8,090 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Lake Titicaca 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 Titicaca is 1.20× the size of Shanghai.
- Wikidata records a greatest depth of 489 m; with its volume that gives an average depth of about 110 m.
- Wikidata records a volume of 893 km³. Poured over Belgium (30,700 km²), that water would stand 29 m deep.
- Its surface lies about 3,812 m above sea level (Wikidata).
- Lake Titicaca lies at 16°S, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.1×.
- Laid out flat, Lake Titicaca stretches about 151 km north to south and 156 km east to west.
- Our measured 8,110 km² is 3.2% below Wikidata’s published figure of 8,370 km². Published areas of lakes and seas move with the water level and with what is counted, so a few percent is expected.
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On the shore
Natural Earth’s outlines of Peru and Bolivia contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Lake Titicaca. 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 Titicacathe name in this page’s titlesource: Size Versus (Wikidata’s English label is “Titicaca”)
- Titicacaalso calledsource: Natural Earth
- Lago Titicacaalso calledsource: Natural Earth
Where Lake Titicaca ranks
Lake Titicaca is the 18th 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