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Bay of Fundy
Natural Earth’s outline of the Bay of Fundy measures about 15,600 km² (6,010 mi²), the 39th largest of the 42 seas on sizeversus, and 1.03× the size of East Timor.
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- Bay of Fundy
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The numbers
- 15,600km²Area, measured6,010 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 16,000km²Area, publishedWikidata · 2.7% above our measure
- 150mGreatest 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 Bay of Fundy
- The Arabian Sea, the largest of the 42 seas ranked on sizeversus, is 265× the size of the Bay of Fundy; the Bay of Fundy ranks 39th.
- The Bay of Fundy sits between Garabogazköl (17,000 km²) and the Chesapeake Bay (11,700 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, the Bay of Fundy would be larger than 55 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 158th by area, between Eswatini (17,100 km²) and East Timor (15,100 km²).
- It is larger than 4 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Connecticut, 12,700 km²) and smaller than 47.
- It is larger than 2 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Tianjin, 11,500 km²) and smaller than 29.
- The closest Chinese province is Beijing (16,300 km²): the Bay of Fundy is 96% of the size of Beijing.
- Wikidata records a greatest depth of 150 m.
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 45°N is drawn about 2.0× too large in area, so the Bay of Fundy looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, the Bay of Fundy stretches about 201 km north to south and 300 km east to west.
- Our measured 15,600 km² is 2.7% below Wikidata’s published figure of 16,000 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 Canada and the United States lie within 25 km of the outline of the Bay of Fundy. 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 Bay of Fundy ranks
The Bay of Fundy is the 39th 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