Sea
Sea of Azov
Natural Earth’s outline of the Sea of Azov measures about 37,600 km² (14,500 mi²), the 34th largest of the 42 seas on sizeversus, and about the same size as the Netherlands.
100 km
- Sea of Azov
- Netherlands
The numbers
- 37,600km²Area, measured14,500 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 37,600km²Area, publishedWikidata · agrees within 2%
- 14.5mGreatest depthaverage about 0.1 m
- 5.6km³VolumeWikidata
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 Sea of Azov
- The Arabian Sea, the largest of the 42 seas ranked on sizeversus, is 110× the size of the Sea of Azov; the Sea of Azov ranks 34th.
- The Sea of Azov sits between the Bali Sea (43,400 km²) and the Gulf of Finland (30,400 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, the Sea of Azov would be larger than 77 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 136th by area, between Bhutan (40,400 km²) and the Netherlands (37,100 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 Hainan (33,800 km²): the Sea of Azov is 1.11× the size of Hainan.
- Wikidata records a greatest depth of 15 m; with its volume that gives an average depth of about 0.1 m.
- Wikidata records a volume of 6 km³. Poured over the Netherlands (37,100 km²), that water would stand 0.2 m deep.
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 46°N is drawn about 2.1× too large in area, so the Sea of Azov looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, the Sea of Azov stretches about 225 km north to south and 339 km east to west.
- Wikidata’s published figure of 37,600 km² agrees with our measured 37,600 km², to within 2%.
About the same size as
Countries
On the shore
Natural Earth’s outlines of Russia and Ukraine lie within 25 km of the outline of the Sea of Azov. 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 Sea of Azov ranks
The Sea of Azov is the 34th 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