Sea
Sea of Okhotsk
Natural Earth’s outline of the Sea of Okhotsk measures about 1,459,000 km² (563,000 mi²), the 6th largest of the 42 seas on sizeversus, and 93% of the size of Mongolia.
- Mongolia
- Sea of Okhotsk
The numbers
- 1,459,000km²Area, measured563,000 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 1,583,000km²Area, publishedWikidata · 7.8% above our measure, flagged
- 3,374mGreatest 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%. This one is between 5% and 10% apart, so it is flagged and no comparison is built for it automatically.
What the numbers say about the Sea of Okhotsk
- The Arabian Sea, the largest of the 42 seas ranked on sizeversus, is 2.83× the size of the Sea of Okhotsk; the Sea of Okhotsk ranks 6th.
- The Sea of Okhotsk sits between the Bay of Bengal (2,037,000 km²) and the Barents Sea (1,378,000 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, the Sea of Okhotsk would be larger than 193 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 20th by area, between Mongolia (1,565,000 km²) and Peru (1,290,000 km²).
- It is larger than 50 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Texas, 685,000 km²) and smaller than 1.
- It is larger than 30 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Inner Mongolia, 1,144,000 km²) and smaller than 1.
- The closest US state is Alaska (1,505,000 km²): the Sea of Okhotsk is 97% of the size of Alaska.
- Wikidata records a greatest depth of 3,374 m.
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 52°N is drawn about 2.7× too large in area, so the Sea of Okhotsk looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, the Sea of Okhotsk stretches about 1,830 km north to south and 1,340 km east to west.
- Our measured 1,459,000 km² is 7.8% below Wikidata’s published figure of 1,583,000 km². This difference is flagged for review: a lake’s outline may include islands or bays that the published figure leaves out, or the water level may differ. The outline is kept because it is within 10%, and this page is not matched automatically to any other.
About the same size as
Countries
Chinese provinces
On the shore
Natural Earth’s outlines of Russia and Japan lie within 25 km of the outline of the Sea of Okhotsk. 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 Okhotsk ranks
The Sea of Okhotsk is the 6th 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