Lake
Lake Winnipeg
Natural Earth’s outline of Lake Winnipeg measures about 24,800 km² (9,570 mi²), the 12th largest of the 104 lakes on sizeversus, and about the same size as Rwanda.
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The numbers
- 24,800km²Area, measured9,570 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 24,400km²Area, publishedWikidata · agrees within 2%
- 36mGreatest depthaverage about 11.9 m
- 294km³VolumeWikidata
- 217mAbove 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 Winnipeg
- The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 15.3× the size of Lake Winnipeg; Lake Winnipeg ranks 12th.
- Lake Winnipeg sits between Lake Erie (25,700 km²) and Lake Ontario (19,500 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Lake Winnipeg would be larger than 63 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 150th by area, between Rwanda (25,300 km²) and Belize (22,300 km²).
- It is larger than 9 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Vermont, 24,600 km²) and smaller than 42.
- It is larger than 3 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Beijing, 16,300 km²) and smaller than 28.
- The closest US state is Vermont (24,600 km²): Lake Winnipeg is about the same size as Vermont.
- Wikidata records a greatest depth of 36 m; with its volume that gives an average depth of about 12 m.
- Wikidata records a volume of 294 km³. Poured over Belgium (30,700 km²), that water would stand 9.6 m deep.
- Its surface lies about 217 m above sea level (Wikidata).
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 53°N is drawn about 2.7× too large in area, so Lake Winnipeg looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Lake Winnipeg stretches about 447 km north to south and 204 km east to west.
- Wikidata’s published figure of 24,400 km² agrees with our measured 24,800 km², to within 2%.
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Countries
On the shore
Natural Earth’s outlines of Canada contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Lake Winnipeg. 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 Winnipegthe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
- Winnipegalso calledsource: Natural Earth
Where Lake Winnipeg ranks
Lake Winnipeg is the 12th 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