Lake
Reindeer Lake
Natural Earth’s outline of Reindeer Lake measures about 6,720 km² (2,590 mi²), the 23rd largest of the 104 lakes on sizeversus, and 1.18× the size of Brunei.
50 km
- Reindeer Lake
- Brunei
The numbers
- 6,720km²Area, measured2,590 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 6,500km²Area, publishedWikidata · 3.4% below our measure
- 219mGreatest depthaverage about 14.2 m
- 95.2km³VolumeWikidata
- 337mAbove 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 Reindeer Lake
- The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 56.4× the size of Reindeer Lake; Reindeer Lake ranks 23rd.
- Reindeer Lake sits between the Smallwood Reservoir (7,030 km²) and Issyk-Kul (6,260 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Reindeer Lake would be larger than 45 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 168th by area, between Lebanon (10,000 km²) and Palestine (6,070 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 Chinese province is Shanghai (6,750 km²): Reindeer Lake is about the same size as Shanghai.
- Wikidata records a greatest depth of 219 m; with its volume that gives an average depth of about 14 m.
- Wikidata records a volume of 95 km³. Poured over Brunei (5,720 km²), that water would stand 17 m deep.
- Its surface lies about 337 m above sea level (Wikidata).
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 57°N is drawn about 3.4× too large in area, so Reindeer Lake looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Reindeer Lake stretches about 211 km north to south and 109 km east to west.
- Our measured 6,720 km² is 3.4% above Wikidata’s published figure of 6,500 km². Published areas of lakes and seas move with the water level and with what is counted, so a few percent is expected.
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Countries
On the shore
Natural Earth’s outlines of Canada contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Reindeer 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
- Reindeer Lakethe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
- Reindeeralso calledsource: Natural Earth
Where Reindeer Lake ranks
Reindeer Lake is the 23rd 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