Alkaline lake
Uvs Lake
Natural Earth’s outline of Uvs Lake measures about 3,310 km² (1,280 mi²), the 45th largest of the 104 lakes on sizeversus, and 84% of the size of Cape Verde.
50 km
- Cape Verde
- Uvs Lake
The numbers
- 3,310km²Area, measured1,280 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 3,350km²Area, publishedWikidata · agrees within 2%
- 20mGreatest depthWikidata
- 759mAbove 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 Uvs Lake
- The Caspian Sea (called a sea or a lake, depending on the definition), the largest of the 104 lakes ranked on sizeversus, is 114× the size of Uvs Lake; Uvs Lake ranks 45th.
- Uvs Lake sits between the North Aral Sea (3,420 km²) and Amadjuak Lake (3,130 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Uvs Lake would be larger than 39 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 174th by area, between Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (3,320 km²) and Samoa (2,780 km²).
- It is larger than 2 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Rhode Island, 2,830 km²) and smaller than 49.
- It is smaller than every one of the 31 provinces and regions of China.
- The closest US state is Rhode Island (2,830 km²): Uvs Lake is 1.17× the size of Rhode Island.
- Wikidata records a greatest depth of 20 m.
- Its surface lies about 759 m above sea level (Wikidata).
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 50°N is drawn about 2.5× too large in area, so Uvs Lake looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Uvs Lake stretches about 78 km north to south and 84 km east to west.
- Wikidata’s published figure of 3,350 km² agrees with our measured 3,310 km², to within 2%.
About the same size as
Countries
Chinese provinces
On the shore
Natural Earth’s outlines of Mongolia and Russia contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Uvs 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
- Uvs Lakethe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
- Uvsalso calledsource: Natural Earth
- Uvs Nuuralso calledsource: Natural Earth
Where Uvs Lake ranks
Uvs Lake is the 45th 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