Lake Baikal size comparison
31,500 km2 / 12,159 mile2
Lake Baikal is a rift lake located in southern Siberia, Russia, between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryat Republic to the southeast. Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake by volume in the world, containing 22 to 23% of the world's fresh surface water. With 23,615.39 km3 (5,670 cu mi) of fresh water, it contains more water than all of the North American Great Lakes combined. With a maximum depth of 1,642 m (5,387 ft), Baikal is the world's deepest lake. It is the seventh-largest lake in the world by surface area.
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Lake Baikal compared to water bodies
Adriatic sea is
4.40 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Sea of Azov is
1.24 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Bay of Biscay is
7.08 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Dogger Bank is
0.56 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Erie lake is
0.81 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Garabogazkol Aylagy is
0.57 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Great Bear Lake is
0.99 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Great Lakes is
7.11 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Great Slave Lake is
0.92 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Gulf of finland is
0.95 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Lake Huron is
1.89 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Lake Victoria is
2.11 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Lake Winnipeg is
0.77 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Lake Malawi is
0.95 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Mascarene Plateau is
3.65 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Lake Michigan is
1.84 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Lake Superior is
2.62 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Lake Tanganyika is
1.04 times
as big as Lake Baikal
White Sea is
2.86 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Lake Baikal compared to countries / states
Albania is
0.91 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Austria is
2.66 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Bosnia and Herzegovina is
1.63 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Baltic States is
5.56 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Belgium is
0.97 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Benelux Union is
2.43 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Bulgaria is
3.52 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Belarus is
6.59 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Switzerland is
1.31 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Crimea is
0.86 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Czech Republic is
2.50 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Czechoslovakia is
4.06 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Denmark is
1.37 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Estonia is
1.44 times
as big as Lake Baikal
England is
4.14 times
as big as Lake Baikal
United Kingdom is
7.71 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Greece (mainland) is
3.51 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Croatia is
1.80 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Hungary is
2.95 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Republic of Ireland is
2.23 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Iceland is
3.27 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Italy is
9.57 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Kosovo is
0.35 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Lithuania is
2.07 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Latvia is
2.05 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Moldova is
1.07 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Montenegro is
0.44 times
as big as Lake Baikal
North Macedonia is
0.82 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Netherlands is
1.32 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Northern Ireland is
0.45 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Northern Cyprus is
0.11 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Poland is
9.93 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Portugal is
2.92 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Romania is
7.57 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Serbia is
2.81 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Scotland is
2.49 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Slovenia is
0.64 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Slovakia is
1.56 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Transnistria is
0.13 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Wales is
0.66 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Yugoslavia is
8.12 times
as big as Lake Baikal
UAE (United Arab Emirates) is
2.65 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Armenia is
0.94 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Republic of Artsakh is
0.10 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Azerbaijan is
2.75 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Bangladesh is
4.57 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Brunei is
0.18 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Bhutan is
1.22 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Chukchi Peninsula is
1.62 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Fiji is
0.58 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Georgia is
2.21 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Israel is
0.66 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Jordan is
2.84 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Kamchatka Peninsula is
8.57 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Kyrgyzstan is
6.35 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Cambodia is
5.75 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Korean peninsula is
7.01 times
as big as Lake Baikal
North Korea is
3.83 times
as big as Lake Baikal
South Korea is
3.16 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Kuwait is
0.57 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Laos is
7.52 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Lebanon is
0.33 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Sri Lanka is
2.08 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Malay peninsula is
7.69 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Nagorno-Karabakh is
0.14 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (Azerbaijan) is
0.17 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Nepal is
4.67 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Oman is
9.83 times
as big as Lake Baikal
South Ossetia is
0.12 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Philippines is
9.52 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Palestine is
0.19 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Qatar is
0.37 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Syria is
5.88 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Tajikistan is
4.54 times
as big as Lake Baikal
East Timor is
0.47 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Taiwan is
1.14 times
as big as Lake Baikal
West Bank is
0.18 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Burkina Faso is
8.71 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Burundi is
0.88 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Benin is
3.58 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Djibouti is
0.74 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Western Sahara is
8.44 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Eritrea is
3.73 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Gabon is
8.50 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Ghana is
7.57 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Gambia is
0.36 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Guinea is
7.80 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Equatorial Guinea is
0.89 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Guinea-Bissau is
1.15 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Halaib Triangle is
0.65 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Liberia is
3.54 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Lesotho is
0.96 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Malawi is
3.76 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Rwanda is
0.84 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Sierra Leone is
2.28 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Senegal is
6.25 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Somaliland is
5.59 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Eswatini (Swaziland) is
0.55 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Togo is
1.80 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Tunisia is
5.19 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Uganda is
7.65 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Upper Peninsula of Michigan is
1.35 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Alabama (US) is
4.31 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Arkansas (US) is
4.35 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Arizona (US) is
9.34 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Colorado (US) is
8.57 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Connecticut (US) is
0.46 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Delaware (US) is
0.16 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Florida (US) is
5.41 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Georgia (US) is
4.89 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Hawaii (US) is
0.90 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Iowa (US) is
4.63 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Idaho (US) is
6.88 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Illinois (US) is
4.76 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Indiana (US) is
2.99 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Kansas (US) is
6.76 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Kentucky (US) is
3.32 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Louisiana (US) is
4.30 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Massachusetts (US) is
0.86 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Maryland (US) is
1.02 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Maine (US) is
2.91 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Michigan (US) is
4.78 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Minnesota (US) is
7.15 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Missouri (US) is
5.73 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Mississippi (US) is
3.98 times
as big as Lake Baikal
North Carolina (US) is
4.43 times
as big as Lake Baikal
North Dakota (US) is
5.82 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Nebraska (US) is
6.37 times
as big as Lake Baikal
New Hampshire (US) is
0.77 times
as big as Lake Baikal
New Jersey (US) is
0.72 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Nevada (US) is
9.09 times
as big as Lake Baikal
New York State (US) is
4.49 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Ohio (US) is
3.69 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Oklahoma (US) is
5.75 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Oregon (US) is
8.10 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Pennsylvania (US) is
3.79 times
as big as Lake Baikal
South Carolina (US) is
2.63 times
as big as Lake Baikal
South Dakota (US) is
6.35 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Tennessee (US) is
3.47 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Utah (US) is
6.98 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Virginia (US) is
3.52 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Vermont (US) is
0.79 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Washington (US) is
5.87 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Wisconsin (US) is
5.39 times
as big as Lake Baikal
West Virginia (US) is
1.99 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Wyoming (US) is
8.11 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Belize is
0.73 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Costa Rica is
1.62 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Cuba is
3.49 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Dominican Republic is
1.55 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Ecuador is
8.14 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Guatemala is
3.46 times
as big as Lake Baikal
French Guiana is
2.65 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Guyana is
6.82 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Honduras is
3.57 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Haiti is
0.88 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Jamaica is
0.35 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Republic of Lakotah is
6.35 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Mojave Desert is
3.94 times
as big as Lake Baikal
New England is
5.92 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Nicaragua is
4.14 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Panama is
2.40 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Puerto Rico (US) is
0.29 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Suriname is
5.20 times
as big as Lake Baikal
El Salvador is
0.67 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Uruguay is
5.59 times
as big as Lake Baikal
Yucatan Peninsula is
5.75 times
as big as Lake Baikal