Lesser Slave Lake

The numbers

• 1,200km²Area, measured461 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 1,170km²Area, publishedWikidata · 2.3% below our measure
• 114mGreatest depthaverage about 11.5 m
• 13.7km³VolumeWikidata
• 578mAbove 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 Lesser Slave Lake

• The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 317× the size of Lesser Slave Lake; Lesser Slave Lake ranks 82nd.
• Lesser Slave Lake sits between Kainji Lake (1,230 km²) and Lake Saint Clair (1,150 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, Lesser Slave Lake 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): Lesser Slave Lake is 42% of the size of Rhode Island.
• Wikidata records a greatest depth of 114 m; with its volume that gives an average depth of about 11 m.
• Wikidata records a volume of 14 km³. Poured over São Tomé and Príncipe (1,040 km²), that water would stand 13 m deep.
• Its surface lies about 578 m above sea level (Wikidata).
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 55°N is drawn about 3.1× too large in area, so Lesser Slave Lake looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Lesser Slave Lake stretches about 32 km north to south and 94 km east to west.
• Our measured 1,200 km² is 2.3% above Wikidata’s published figure of 1,170 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

Natural Earth’s outlines of Canada contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Lesser Slave Lake. 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

• Lesser Slave Lakethe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
• Lesser Slavealso calledsource: Natural Earth