Sea
Bali Sea
Natural Earth’s outline of the Bali Sea measures about 43,400 km² (16,800 mi²), the 33rd largest of the 42 seas on sizeversus, and about the same size as Denmark.
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- Bali Sea
- Denmark
The numbers
- 43,400km²Area, measured16,800 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 45,000km²Area, publishedWikidata · 3.5% above our measure
- 1,590mGreatest depthWikidata
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 the Bali Sea
- The Arabian Sea, the largest of the 42 seas ranked on sizeversus, is 95.1× the size of the Bali Sea; the Bali Sea ranks 33rd.
- The Bali Sea sits between the Ungava Bay (49,600 km²) and the Sea of Azov (37,600 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, the Bali Sea would be larger than 80 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 133rd by area, between Estonia (45,800 km²) and Denmark (42,700 km²).
- It is larger than 10 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Maryland, 25,500 km²) and smaller than 41.
- It is larger than 4 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Hainan, 33,800 km²) and smaller than 27.
- The closest Chinese province is Ningxia (52,100 km²): the Bali Sea is 83% of the size of Ningxia.
- Wikidata records a greatest depth of 1,590 m.
- The Bali Sea lies at 8°S, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
- Laid out flat, the Bali Sea stretches about 238 km north to south and 314 km east to west.
- Our measured 43,400 km² is 3.5% below Wikidata’s published figure of 45,000 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 Indonesia lie within 25 km of the outline of the Bali Sea. That is what its geometry says, and it is not a statement about who owns the water or where any border runs in it.
Where the Bali Sea ranks
The Bali Sea is the 33rd largest of the 42 seas on sizeversus, ranked by measured area.
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Sources and method
- Outline
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Marine Areas (geography_marine_polys), public domain (Marine Areas (geography_marine_polys)). Natural Earth draws marine areas for labels and cuts them at named sub-areas; the outline is kept because its area matches the published one.
- 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