Sea
Savu Sea
Natural Earth’s outline of the Savu Sea measures about 102,000 km² (39,400 mi²), the 29th largest of the 42 seas on sizeversus, and about the same size as Iceland.
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- Iceland
- Savu Sea
The numbers
- 102,000km²Area, measured39,400 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 105,000km²Area, publishedWikidata · 2.9% above our measure
- 3,470mGreatest 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 Savu Sea
- The Arabian Sea, the largest of the 42 seas ranked on sizeversus, is 40.5× the size of the Savu Sea; the Savu Sea ranks 29th.
- The Savu Sea sits between the Gulf of Bothnia (120,000 km²) and the White Sea (92,200 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, the Savu Sea would be larger than 105 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 108th by area, between Iceland (102,000 km²) and South Korea (98,500 km²).
- It is larger than 14 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Indiana, 94,300 km²) and smaller than 37.
- It is larger than 8 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Zhejiang, 101,000 km²) and smaller than 23.
- The closest Chinese province is Zhejiang (101,000 km²): the Savu Sea is about the same size as Zhejiang.
- Wikidata records a greatest depth of 3,470 m.
- The Savu Sea lies at 9°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 Savu Sea stretches about 287 km north to south and 730 km east to west.
- Our measured 102,000 km² is 2.9% below Wikidata’s published figure of 105,000 km². Published areas of lakes and seas move with the water level and with what is counted, so a few percent is expected.
About the same size as
Countries
On the shore
Natural Earth’s outlines of Indonesia and East Timor lie within 25 km of the outline of the Savu 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 Savu Sea ranks
The Savu Sea is the 29th 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