Red Lake

The numbers

• 1,120km²Area, measured432 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 1,150km²Area, publishedWikidata · 2.6% above our measure
• 358mAbove 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 Red Lake

• The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 339× the size of Red Lake; Red Lake ranks 87th.
• Red Lake sits between the Votkinsk Reservoir (1,120 km²) and Gods Lake (1,110 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, Red 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): Red Lake is 39% of the size of Rhode Island.
• Its surface lies about 358 m above sea level (Wikidata).
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 48°N is drawn about 2.2× too large in area, so Red Lake looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Red Lake stretches about 37 km north to south and 57 km east to west.
• Our measured 1,120 km² is 2.6% below Wikidata’s published figure of 1,150 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

• United States

Natural Earth’s outlines of the United States contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Red 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

• Red Lakethe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
• Redalso calledsource: Natural Earth
• Lower Red Lakealso calledsource: Natural Earth