Red Sea size comparison
438,000 km2 / 169,068 mile2
The Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. Its connection to the ocean is in the south, through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. To its north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez (leading to the Suez Canal). The Red Sea has a surface area of roughly 438,000 km2 (169,100 mi2), is about 2250 km (1398 mi) long, and — at its widest point — 355 km (220.6 mi) wide. It has an average depth of 490 m (1,608 ft), and in the central Suakin Trough it reaches its maximum depth of 3,040 m (9,970 ft).
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Red Sea compared to water bodies
Adriatic sea is
0.32 times
as big as Red Sea
Arabian Sea is
8.82 times
as big as Red Sea
Arctic Ocean is
32 times
as big as Red Sea
Sea of Azov is
0.09 times
as big as Red Sea
Lake Baikal is
0.07 times
as big as Red Sea
Baltic sea is
0.86 times
as big as Red Sea
Bay of bengal is
4.96 times
as big as Red Sea
Bering Sea is
4.57 times
as big as Red Sea
Bermuda Triangle is
1.14 times
as big as Red Sea
Bay of Biscay is
0.51 times
as big as Red Sea
Black Sea is
1.00 times
as big as Red Sea
Caribbean Sea is
6.29 times
as big as Red Sea
Caspian Sea is
0.85 times
as big as Red Sea
Dogger Bank is
0.04 times
as big as Red Sea
Erie lake is
0.06 times
as big as Red Sea
Garabogazkol Aylagy is
0.04 times
as big as Red Sea
Great Pacific garbage patch is
3.65 times
as big as Red Sea
Great Barrier Reef is
0.79 times
as big as Red Sea
Great Bear Lake is
0.07 times
as big as Red Sea
Great Lakes is
0.51 times
as big as Red Sea
Great Slave Lake is
0.07 times
as big as Red Sea
Greenland Sea is
2.75 times
as big as Red Sea
Gulf of finland is
0.07 times
as big as Red Sea
Gulf of Mexico is
3.65 times
as big as Red Sea
Hudson bay is
2.81 times
as big as Red Sea
Lake Huron is
0.14 times
as big as Red Sea
Kerguelen Plateau is
2.85 times
as big as Red Sea
Lake Victoria is
0.15 times
as big as Red Sea
Lake Winnipeg is
0.06 times
as big as Red Sea
Lake Malawi is
0.07 times
as big as Red Sea
Mascarene Plateau is
0.26 times
as big as Red Sea
Mediterranean Sea is
5.71 times
as big as Red Sea
Lake Michigan is
0.13 times
as big as Red Sea
Nile river is
1.14 times
as big as Red Sea
North Sea is
1.30 times
as big as Red Sea
Sea of Okhotsk is
3.61 times
as big as Red Sea
Sea of Japan is
2.23 times
as big as Red Sea
South China Sea is
7.99 times
as big as Red Sea
Southern Ocean is
46 times
as big as Red Sea
Lake Superior is
0.19 times
as big as Red Sea
Lake Tanganyika is
0.08 times
as big as Red Sea
White Sea is
0.21 times
as big as Red Sea
Red Sea compared to European countries
Austria is
0.19 times
as big as Red Sea
Bosnia and Herzegovina is
0.12 times
as big as Red Sea
The Balkans is
1.07 times
as big as Red Sea
Baltic States is
0.40 times
as big as Red Sea
Benelux Union is
0.18 times
as big as Red Sea
Bulgaria is
0.25 times
as big as Red Sea
Belarus is
0.47 times
as big as Red Sea
Czech Republic is
0.18 times
as big as Red Sea
Czechoslovakia is
0.29 times
as big as Red Sea
Germany is
0.82 times
as big as Red Sea
Estonia is
0.10 times
as big as Red Sea
England is
0.30 times
as big as Red Sea
Spain is
1.16 times
as big as Red Sea
Finland is
0.77 times
as big as Red Sea
France is
1.26 times
as big as Red Sea
United Kingdom is
0.55 times
as big as Red Sea
Greece (mainland) is
0.25 times
as big as Red Sea
Croatia is
0.13 times
as big as Red Sea
Hungary is
0.21 times
as big as Red Sea
Iberian Peninsula is
1.33 times
as big as Red Sea
Republic of Ireland is
0.16 times
as big as Red Sea
Iceland is
0.24 times
as big as Red Sea
Italy is
0.69 times
as big as Red Sea
Lithuania is
0.15 times
as big as Red Sea
Latvia is
0.15 times
as big as Red Sea
Norway is
0.74 times
as big as Red Sea
Nordic countries is
2.97 times
as big as Red Sea
Poland is
0.71 times
as big as Red Sea
Portugal is
0.21 times
as big as Red Sea
Romania is
0.54 times
as big as Red Sea
Serbia is
0.20 times
as big as Red Sea
Scandinavian Peninsula is
1.71 times
as big as Red Sea
Scotland is
0.18 times
as big as Red Sea
Sweden is
1.03 times
as big as Red Sea
Slovakia is
0.11 times
as big as Red Sea
Ukraine is
1.38 times
as big as Red Sea
Ural Mountains is
1.14 times
as big as Red Sea
Yugoslavia is
0.58 times
as big as Red Sea
Red Sea compared to Asian countries
UAE (United Arab Emirates) is
0.19 times
as big as Red Sea
Afghanistan is
1.49 times
as big as Red Sea
Arabian peninsula is
7.39 times
as big as Red Sea
Azerbaijan is
0.20 times
as big as Red Sea
Bangladesh is
0.33 times
as big as Red Sea
Chukchi Peninsula is
0.12 times
as big as Red Sea
Georgia is
0.16 times
as big as Red Sea
Indonesia is
4.25 times
as big as Red Sea
India is
7.51 times
as big as Red Sea
Iraq is
1.00 times
as big as Red Sea
Iran is
3.72 times
as big as Red Sea
Jordan is
0.20 times
as big as Red Sea
Japan is
0.86 times
as big as Red Sea
Kamchatka Peninsula is
0.62 times
as big as Red Sea
Kenya is
1.33 times
as big as Red Sea
Kyrgyzstan is
0.46 times
as big as Red Sea
Cambodia is
0.41 times
as big as Red Sea
Korean peninsula is
0.50 times
as big as Red Sea
North Korea is
0.28 times
as big as Red Sea
South Korea is
0.23 times
as big as Red Sea
Kurdistan is
0.89 times
as big as Red Sea
Kazakhstan is
6.22 times
as big as Red Sea
Laos is
0.54 times
as big as Red Sea
Levant is
0.74 times
as big as Red Sea
Sri Lanka is
0.15 times
as big as Red Sea
Malay peninsula is
0.55 times
as big as Red Sea
Manchuria is
1.80 times
as big as Red Sea
Myanmar is
1.54 times
as big as Red Sea
Mongolia is
3.57 times
as big as Red Sea
Malaysia is
0.76 times
as big as Red Sea
Nepal is
0.34 times
as big as Red Sea
Oman is
0.71 times
as big as Red Sea
Papua New Guinea is
1.06 times
as big as Red Sea
Philippines is
0.68 times
as big as Red Sea
Pakistan is
1.82 times
as big as Red Sea
Saudi Arabia is
4.91 times
as big as Red Sea
Syria is
0.42 times
as big as Red Sea
Thailand is
1.17 times
as big as Red Sea
Tajikistan is
0.33 times
as big as Red Sea
Turkmenistan is
1.11 times
as big as Red Sea
Turkey is
1.79 times
as big as Red Sea
Uzbekistan is
1.02 times
as big as Red Sea
Vietnam is
0.76 times
as big as Red Sea
Yemen is
1.21 times
as big as Red Sea
Red Sea compared to African countries
Angola is
2.85 times
as big as Red Sea
Burkina Faso is
0.63 times
as big as Red Sea
Benin is
0.26 times
as big as Red Sea
Botswana is
1.33 times
as big as Red Sea
DR Congo is
5.35 times
as big as Red Sea
Central African Republic is
1.42 times
as big as Red Sea
Congo is
0.78 times
as big as Red Sea
Ivory Coast is
0.74 times
as big as Red Sea
Cameroon is
1.09 times
as big as Red Sea
Darfur (Sudan) is
1.13 times
as big as Red Sea
Algeria is
5.44 times
as big as Red Sea
Egypt is
2.29 times
as big as Red Sea
Western Sahara is
0.61 times
as big as Red Sea
Eritrea is
0.27 times
as big as Red Sea
Ethiopia is
2.52 times
as big as Red Sea
Gabon is
0.61 times
as big as Red Sea
Ghana is
0.54 times
as big as Red Sea
Guinea is
0.56 times
as big as Red Sea
Horn of Africa is
4.30 times
as big as Red Sea
Kalahari Desert is
2.05 times
as big as Red Sea
Liberia is
0.25 times
as big as Red Sea
Libya is
4.02 times
as big as Red Sea
Morocco is
1.02 times
as big as Red Sea
Madagascar is
1.34 times
as big as Red Sea
Mali is
2.83 times
as big as Red Sea
Mauritania is
2.34 times
as big as Red Sea
Malawi is
0.27 times
as big as Red Sea
Mozambique is
1.83 times
as big as Red Sea
Namibia is
1.88 times
as big as Red Sea
Niger is
2.89 times
as big as Red Sea
Nigeria is
2.11 times
as big as Red Sea
Nile Basin is
7.76 times
as big as Red Sea
Sahel is
6.97 times
as big as Red Sea
Sudan is
4.31 times
as big as Red Sea
Sierra Leone is
0.16 times
as big as Red Sea
Senegal is
0.45 times
as big as Red Sea
Somalia is
1.46 times
as big as Red Sea
Somaliland is
0.40 times
as big as Red Sea
South Sudan is
1.41 times
as big as Red Sea
Chad is
2.93 times
as big as Red Sea
Togo is
0.13 times
as big as Red Sea
Tunisia is
0.37 times
as big as Red Sea
Tanzania is
2.16 times
as big as Red Sea
Uganda is
0.55 times
as big as Red Sea
South Africa is
2.79 times
as big as Red Sea
Zambia is
1.72 times
as big as Red Sea
Zimbabwe is
0.89 times
as big as Red Sea
Red Sea compared to US States
California (US) is
0.97 times
as big as Red Sea
Texas (US) is
1.59 times
as big as Red Sea
Alaska (US) is
3.92 times
as big as Red Sea
Alabama (US) is
0.31 times
as big as Red Sea
Arkansas (US) is
0.31 times
as big as Red Sea
Arizona (US) is
0.67 times
as big as Red Sea
Colorado (US) is
0.62 times
as big as Red Sea
Florida (US) is
0.39 times
as big as Red Sea
Georgia (US) is
0.35 times
as big as Red Sea
Iowa (US) is
0.33 times
as big as Red Sea
Idaho (US) is
0.49 times
as big as Red Sea
Illinois (US) is
0.34 times
as big as Red Sea
Indiana (US) is
0.22 times
as big as Red Sea
Kansas (US) is
0.49 times
as big as Red Sea
Kentucky (US) is
0.24 times
as big as Red Sea
Louisiana (US) is
0.31 times
as big as Red Sea
Maine (US) is
0.21 times
as big as Red Sea
Michigan (US) is
0.34 times
as big as Red Sea
Minnesota (US) is
0.51 times
as big as Red Sea
Missouri (US) is
0.41 times
as big as Red Sea
Mississippi (US) is
0.29 times
as big as Red Sea
Montana (US) is
0.87 times
as big as Red Sea
North Carolina (US) is
0.32 times
as big as Red Sea
North Dakota (US) is
0.42 times
as big as Red Sea
Nebraska (US) is
0.46 times
as big as Red Sea
New Mexico (US) is
0.72 times
as big as Red Sea
Nevada (US) is
0.65 times
as big as Red Sea
New York State (US) is
0.32 times
as big as Red Sea
Ohio (US) is
0.27 times
as big as Red Sea
Oklahoma (US) is
0.41 times
as big as Red Sea
Oregon (US) is
0.58 times
as big as Red Sea
Pennsylvania (US) is
0.27 times
as big as Red Sea
South Carolina (US) is
0.19 times
as big as Red Sea
South Dakota (US) is
0.46 times
as big as Red Sea
Tennessee (US) is
0.25 times
as big as Red Sea
Utah (US) is
0.50 times
as big as Red Sea
Virginia (US) is
0.25 times
as big as Red Sea
Washington (US) is
0.42 times
as big as Red Sea
Wisconsin (US) is
0.39 times
as big as Red Sea
West Virginia (US) is
0.14 times
as big as Red Sea
Wyoming (US) is
0.58 times
as big as Red Sea
Red Sea compared to countries in the Americas
Argentina is
6.35 times
as big as Red Sea
Bolivia is
2.51 times
as big as Red Sea
Central America is
1.16 times
as big as Red Sea
Chile is
1.73 times
as big as Red Sea
Colombia is
2.61 times
as big as Red Sea
Corn Belt (US) is
5.71 times
as big as Red Sea
Costa Rica is
0.12 times
as big as Red Sea
Cuba is
0.25 times
as big as Red Sea
Dominican Republic is
0.11 times
as big as Red Sea
Ecuador is
0.59 times
as big as Red Sea
Guatemala is
0.25 times
as big as Red Sea
French Guiana is
0.19 times
as big as Red Sea
Guyana is
0.49 times
as big as Red Sea
Honduras is
0.26 times
as big as Red Sea
Republic of Lakotah is
0.46 times
as big as Red Sea
The Midwest (US) is
4.85 times
as big as Red Sea
Mississippi river basin is
6.81 times
as big as Red Sea
Mojave Desert is
0.28 times
as big as Red Sea
Mexico is
4.48 times
as big as Red Sea
New England is
0.43 times
as big as Red Sea
Nicaragua is
0.30 times
as big as Red Sea
Panama is
0.17 times
as big as Red Sea
The Pampas (South America) is
1.71 times
as big as Red Sea
Peru is
2.93 times
as big as Red Sea
Paraguay is
0.93 times
as big as Red Sea
Suriname is
0.37 times
as big as Red Sea
Uruguay is
0.40 times
as big as Red Sea
Venezuela is
2.08 times
as big as Red Sea
Yucatan Peninsula is
0.41 times
as big as Red Sea