Bay
Ungava Bay
Natural Earth’s outline of the Ungava Bay measures about 49,600 km² (19,200 mi²), the 32nd largest of the 42 seas on sizeversus, and about the same size as Slovakia.
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- Ungava Bay
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The numbers
- 49,600km²Area, measured19,200 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 50,000km²Area, publishedWikidata · agrees within 2%
- 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 Ungava Bay
- The Arabian Sea, the largest of the 42 seas ranked on sizeversus, is 83.2× the size of the Ungava Bay; the Ungava Bay ranks 32nd.
- The Ungava Bay sits between the Bohai Sea (77,900 km²) and the Bali Sea (43,400 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, the Ungava Bay would be larger than 83 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 130th by area, between Costa Rica (51,200 km²) and Slovakia (48,500 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 Ningxia (52,100 km²): the Ungava Bay is 95% of the size of Ningxia.
- Wikidata records a greatest depth of 150 m.
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 60°N is drawn about 3.9× too large in area, so the Ungava Bay looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, the Ungava Bay stretches about 327 km north to south and 319 km east to west.
- Wikidata’s published figure of 50,000 km² agrees with our measured 49,600 km², to within 2%.
About the same size as
Countries
On the shore
Natural Earth’s outlines of Canada lie within 25 km of the outline of the Ungava Bay. 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 Ungava Bay ranks
The Ungava Bay is the 32nd 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