Lake
Lake Winnipegosis
Natural Earth’s outline of Lake Winnipegosis measures about 5,360 km² (2,070 mi²), the 28th largest of the 104 lakes on sizeversus, and about the same size as Cyprus.
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- Cyprus
- Lake Winnipegosis
The numbers
- 5,360km²Area, measured2,070 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 5,160km²Area, publishedWikidata · 3.8% below our measure
- 12mGreatest depthaverage about 3.7 m
- 20.1km³VolumeWikidata
- 254mAbove 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 Winnipegosis
- The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 70.7× the size of Lake Winnipegosis; Lake Winnipegosis ranks 28th.
- Lake Winnipegosis sits between Lake Albert (5,380 km²) and Lake Torrens (5,150 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Lake Winnipegosis would be larger than 42 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 171st by area, between Cyprus (5,400 km²) and Trinidad and Tobago (5,120 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 smaller than every one of the 31 provinces and regions of China.
- The closest US state is Delaware (5,170 km²): Lake Winnipegosis is 1.04× the size of Delaware.
- Wikidata records a greatest depth of 12 m; with its volume that gives an average depth of about 3.7 m.
- Wikidata records a volume of 20 km³. Poured over Cyprus (5,400 km²), that water would stand 3.7 m deep.
- Its surface lies about 254 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 Winnipegosis looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Lake Winnipegosis stretches about 178 km north to south and 102 km east to west.
- Our measured 5,360 km² is 3.8% above Wikidata’s published figure of 5,160 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
Chinese provinces
On the shore
Natural Earth’s outlines of Canada contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Lake Winnipegosis. 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 Winnipegosisthe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
- Winnipegosisalso calledsource: Natural Earth
Where Lake Winnipegosis ranks
Lake Winnipegosis is the 28th 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