Manicouagan Reservoir

The numbers

• 2,120km²Area, measured819 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 1,940km²Area, publishedWikidata · 9.2% below our measure, flagged
• 350mGreatest depthWikidata
• 359mAbove 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%. This one is between 5% and 10% apart, so it is flagged and no comparison is built for it automatically.

What the numbers say about the Manicouagan Reservoir

• The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 179× the size of the Manicouagan Reservoir; the Manicouagan Reservoir ranks 56th.
• The Manicouagan Reservoir sits between Lake Edward (2,210 km²) and Lake Barlee (2,100 km²) in the ranking.
• It is a reservoir, made by a dam, and the 5th largest of the 14 reservoirs in this ranking.
• Counted as a country, the Manicouagan Reservoir would be larger than 37 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 176th by area, between Luxembourg (2,610 km²) and Mauritius (2,000 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): the Manicouagan Reservoir is 75% of the size of Rhode Island.
• Wikidata records a greatest depth of 350 m.
• Its surface lies about 359 m above sea level (Wikidata).
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 51°N is drawn about 2.6× too large in area, so the Manicouagan Reservoir looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, the Manicouagan Reservoir stretches about 145 km north to south and 83 km east to west.
• Our measured 2,120 km² is 9.2% above Wikidata’s published figure of 1,940 km². This difference is flagged for review: a lake’s outline may include islands or bays that the published figure leaves out, or the water level may differ. The outline is kept because it is within 10%, and this page is not matched automatically to any other.

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 the Manicouagan Reservoir. 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

• Manicouagan Reservoirthe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
• Manicouaganalso calledsource: Natural Earth
• Réservoir Manicouaganalso calledsource: Natural Earth