Gulf of Riga

The numbers

• 18,200km²Area, measured7,030 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 18,000km²Area, publishedWikidata · agrees within 2%
• 67mGreatest 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 Gulf of Riga

• The Arabian Sea, the largest of the 42 seas ranked on sizeversus, is 227× the size of the Gulf of Riga; the Gulf of Riga ranks 37th.
• The Gulf of Riga sits between Kattegat (24,000 km²) and Garabogazköl (17,000 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, the Gulf of Riga would be larger than 57 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 156th by area, between Fiji (18,900 km²) and Kuwait (17,500 km²).
• It is larger than 5 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Hawaii, 16,800 km²) and smaller than 46.
• It is larger than 3 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Beijing, 16,300 km²) and smaller than 28.
• The closest US state is Hawaii (16,800 km²): the Gulf of Riga is 1.08× the size of Hawaii.
• Wikidata records a greatest depth of 67 m.
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 58°N is drawn about 3.5× too large in area, so the Gulf of Riga looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, the Gulf of Riga stretches about 228 km north to south and 166 km east to west.
• Wikidata’s published figure of 18,000 km² agrees with our measured 18,200 km², to within 2%.

About the same size as

On the shore

• Estonia
• Latvia

Natural Earth’s outlines of Estonia and Latvia lie within 25 km of the outline of the Gulf of Riga. That is what its geometry says, and it is not a statement about who owns the water or where any border runs in it.

Compare the Gulf of Riga

• Fiji vs Gulf of Riga
• Gulf of Riga vs Hawaii
• Gulf of Riga vs Beijing