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Earthdate 2003-02-21
Tabled by Area (Big)
Table 4.
Other Large Entities of the World and Beyond, in ascending Area order
Rank |
Entity |
Area (km2) |
Population (106)
[or Volume (km3)]
[or Gravity (g)] |
Length/
Diameter (km) |
|
|
Wales (Cymru) |
20,768 |
2.906,500 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Kern County |
21,085 |
0.676,367 |
|
† |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Peloponnese (Pen.) |
21,439 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
(Argen.) Tierra del Fuego |
21,571 |
0.069,323 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
European Turkey (Thrace) |
23,719 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Sardinia |
23,813 |
1.657,562 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Dordogne River basin |
24,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
472 |
|
|
|
Adirondack Park (Mtns.) |
24,300 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Lake Winnipeg |
24,387 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Somerset Island |
24,786 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Roanoke River basin |
24,810 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
612 |
|
|
|
Sicily |
25,460 |
5.172,785 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Lake Erie |
25,670 |
Volume: 484 |
|
* |
|
388 × 92 |
|
|
|
(S. Korea) Han River basin |
26,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
514 |
|
|
|
Inyo County |
26,426 |
0.017,944 |
|
† |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
(Chilean) Tierra del Fuego |
26,491 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Crimea (Pen.) |
27,000 |
2.549,800 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Brittany (Breiz) |
27,209 |
2.815,900 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Vltava (Moldau) River basin |
28,093 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
435 |
|
|
|
Great Slave Lake |
28,570 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Connecticut River basin |
28,710 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
655 |
|
|
|
Delaware River basin |
29,630 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
650 |
|
|
|
Lake Nyasa |
29,604 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
(Danish) Jutland (Pen.) |
29,775 |
2.373,555 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Gulf of Finland |
30,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
420 × 125 |
|
|
|
Allegheny River basin |
30,300 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
523 |
|
|
|
Timor (island) |
30,724 |
1.382,207 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
250 asteroids are > 100 km |
≥ 31,000 |
Volume: ≥ 525,000 |
|
** |
|
≥ 100 |
|
|
|
Vancouver Island |
31,285 |
0.571,493 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Great Bear Lake |
31,328 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Lake Baikal |
31,500 |
Volume: 23,000 |
|
* |
|
636 × 48 |
|
|
|
Yalu River basin |
31,751 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
790 |
|
|
|
Denali National Park |
32,100 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Lake Tanganyika |
32,900 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Yuzhny (Novaya Zemlya) |
33,275 |
0.000,400 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Prince of Wales Island |
33,339 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Hainan |
33,572 |
6.557,482 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Aral Sea (1992) |
33,800 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Channeled Scabland |
34,253 |
N.A. |
|
‡‡ |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Hudson River basin |
34,628 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
507 |
|
|
|
New Britain |
36,500 |
0.263,500 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Severnaya Zemlya (Arch.) |
36,712 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Kyushu |
36,717 |
13.368,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
216 Kleopatra |
> 37,000 |
Volume: 670,000 Gravity: 0.009 |
|
‡‡ |
|
217 × 94 × 81 |
|
|
|
(Serbia) Morava River basin |
37,444 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
540 |
|
|
|
Potomac River basin |
37,600 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
616 |
|
|
|
Sea of Azov |
37,600 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
New Siberian Islands |
38,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
(Slovakia) Morava River basin |
38,900 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
365 |
|
|
|
Spitsbergen (island) |
39,044 |
N.A. |
|
|
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Marajó Island |
40,100 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Des Moines River basin |
40,940 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
845 |
|
|
|
Southampton Island |
41,214 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Melville Island |
42,149 |
0.000,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Axel Heiberg Island |
43,178 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Cumberland River basin |
46,830 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
1,106 |
|
|
|
California's Great Valley |
47,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Tierra del Fuego (island) |
47,992 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Severny (Novaya Zemlya) |
48,904 |
0.000,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
San Bernardino County |
51,937 |
1.766,237 |
|
† |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Lut Desert |
52,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Lake Bonneville (prehistoric) |
52,000 |
0.000,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park |
53,400 |
N.A. |
|
‡‡ |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Saint John River basin |
54,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
673 |
|
|
|
Tombigbee River basin |
54,600 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
845 |
|
|
|
Devon Island |
55,247 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Garonne River basin |
56,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
575 |
|
|
|
Yellowstone Country |
56,656 |
N.A. |
|
‡‡ |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Guadalquivir River basin |
57,390 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
657 |
|
|
|
Lake Michigan |
57,800 |
Volume: 4,920 |
|
* |
|
517 × 190 |
|
|
|
Alabama River basin |
58,500 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
512 |
|
|
|
Lake Huron |
59,600 |
Volume: 3,540 |
|
* |
|
331 × 163 |
|
|
|
Sinai Peninsula |
60,714 |
0.230,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Guadiana River basin |
60,748 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
778 |
|
|
|
Svalbard (Arch.) |
62,049 |
0.002,868 |
|
|
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Navajo Indian Reservation |
64,000 |
0.170,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Illinois River basin |
64,750 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
440 |
|
|
|
Mojave Desert |
65,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
(Labrador) Churchill River basin |
65,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
700 |
|
|
|
Lake Victoria |
69,485 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Tasmania |
67,800 |
0.452,847 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Aral Sea (1960) |
68,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Banks Island |
70,028 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Po River basin |
70,091 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
652 |
|
|
|
Sacramento River basin |
70,189 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
615 |
|
|
|
Susquehanna River basin |
71,410 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
715 |
|
|
|
Dniester River basin |
72,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
1,352 |
|
|
|
Moluccas (Arch.) |
74,505 |
1.741,800 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Betpak-Dala (desert) |
75,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
English Channel |
75,000 |
Volume: 4,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Hispaniola (island) |
76,192 |
N.A. |
|
|
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Sakhalin Island |
76,400 |
0.681,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Hokkaido |
77,978 |
5.659,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Scotland |
78,783 |
4.957,300 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Seine River basin |
78,700 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
780 |
|
|
|
Douro (Duero) River basin |
79,096 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
895 |
|
|
|
Tagus River basin |
81,600 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
1,007 |
|
|
|
Lake Superior |
82,100 |
Volume: 12,100 |
|
* |
|
616 × 258 |
|
|
|
Novaya Zemlya (Arch.) |
82,600 |
0.000,400 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Po Hai (Gulf of Chihli) |
82,700 |
Volume: 1,700 |
|
* |
|
480 × 285 |
|
|
|
Ireland (island) |
84,406 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Lake Erie basin |
84,440 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Ebro River basin |
85,500 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
910 |
|
|
|
Wabash River basin |
85,860 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
851 |
|
|
|
Western Dvina (Daugava) R. basin |
88,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
1,020 |
|
|
|
Lake Ontario basin |
89,954 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
White Sea |
90,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Mindanao |
94,630 |
13.232,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Sava River basin |
95,720 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
940 |
|
|
|
Rhône River basin |
97,775 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
813 |
|
|
|
Pecos River basin |
99,200 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
1,490 |
|
|
|
Irish Sea |
100,000 |
Volume: 6,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
(Indian) Jammu-Kashmir |
101,387 |
7.718,700 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Colorado River basin (Texas) |
103,350 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
1,387 |
|
|
|
Luzon |
104,688 |
30,660,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Savu Sea |
105,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Tennessee River basin |
105,960 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
1,049 |
|
|
|
Newfoundland (island) |
112,790 |
0.568,474 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
North Island (N.Z.) |
114,489 |
2.553,413 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Green River basin |
117,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
1,175 |
|
|
|
Loire River basin |
117,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
1,020 |
|
|
|
Gulf of Bothnia |
117,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
668 × 240 |
|
|
|
Brazos River basin |
118,103 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
2,060 |
|
|
|
Oder River basin |
119,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
854 |
|
|
|
30 asteroids are > 200 km |
≥ 125,000 |
Vol.: ≥ 4,200,000 |
|
** |
|
≥ 200 |
|
|
|
Java |
126,897 |
102.873,397 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
England |
130,439 |
48.378,400 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Adriatic Sea |
131,050 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
West Malaysia (Malay Pen.) |
131,598 |
15.261,600 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Namib (desert) |
135,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Atacama Desert |
140,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Ottawa River basin |
142,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
1,271 |
|
|
|
Ishim River basin |
144,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
2,450 |
|
|
|
Simpson Desert |
145,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Elbe River basin |
144,060 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
1,165 |
|
|
|
Gila River basin |
150,500 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
1,015 |
|
|
|
South Island (N.Z.) |
151,971 |
0.881,537 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Tisza River basin |
157,186 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
996 |
|
|
|
Chao Phraya River basin |
160,079 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
365 |
|
|
|
Lake Huron basin |
173,470 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Lake Michigan basin |
176,600 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Gulf of California |
177,000 |
Volume: 132,000 |
|
* |
|
1,200 × 200 |
|
|
|
Yellowstone River basin |
181,300 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
1,114 |
|
|
|
Kura River basin |
188,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
1,364 |
|
|
|
Bay of Biscay |
194,000 |
Volume: 332,000 |
|
* |
|
500 × 400 |
|
|
|
Vistula River basin |
194,500 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
1,047 |
|
|
|
Ellesmere Island |
196,236 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
East Malaysia (Borneo) |
198,160 |
3.815,400 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Antarctica (exposed rock area) |
< 200,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Thar (Great Indian) Desert |
200,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Ustyurt Plateau |
200,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Caspian Depression |
200,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Molucca Sea |
200,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Lake Superior basin |
209,800 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Aegean Sea (Archipelago) |
214,000 |
0.455,763 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Great Britain |
216,777 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Victoria Island |
217,291 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Rhine River basin |
220,000 |
N.A. |
|
|
|
1,320 |
|
|
|
Celebes |
227,654 |
11.552,917 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Honshu |
227,898 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Olympus Mons |
area at base: |
|
230,000 |
Height: 27 km |
|
** |
|
(base) 540 |
|
|
|
Platte River basin |
233,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
1,594 |
|
|
|
Ural (Zhayyq) River basin |
237,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
2,428 |
|
|
|
Fraser River basin |
238,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
1,370 |
|
|
|
Gulf of Saint Lawrence |
238,000 |
Volume: 30,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Lake Victoria basin |
238,900 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Flores Sea |
240,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Persian Gulf |
241,000 |
Volume: 10,000 |
|
* |
|
1,000 × 350 |
|
|
|
Great Lakes |
245,660 |
Volume: 22,684 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Atchafalaya-Red River basin |
246,300 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
2,305 |
|
|
|
Columbia Plateau |
260,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Syrian (North Arabian) Desert |
260,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Kavir Desert |
260,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Filchner Ice Shelf |
260,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Sulu Sea |
260,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Western Sahara |
266,000 |
0.256,177 |
|
|
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Takla Makan Desert |
272,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Chiron (comet) |
280,000 |
Vol.: 14,000,000 |
|
** |
|
~300 |
|
|
|
Celebes Sea |
280,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Snake River basin |
282,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
1,670 |
|
|
|
Neva River basin |
282,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
74 |
|
|
|
Sonoran Desert |
310,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Pechora River basin |
322,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
1,809 |
|
|
|
Colorado Plateau |
337,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Greenland (ice-free area) |
342,000 |
N.A. |
|
** |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Karakum Desert |
350,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Northern Dvina River basin |
357,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
744 |
|
|
|
Nereid |
363,000 |
Vol.: 20,600,000 |
|
** |
|
340 |
|
|
|
Kamchatka Peninsula |
370,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Saskatchewan River basin |
383,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
1,939 |
|
|
|
Caspian Sea |
386,400 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
1,200 × 320 |
|
|
|
Great Sandy Desert |
400,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Irrawaddy River basin |
411,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
2,170 |
|
|
|
Gulf of Carpentaria |
411,600 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
675 × 650 |
|
|
|
Irian Jaya |
412,981 |
1.648,708 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Arkansas River basin |
417,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
2,350 |
|
|
|
Yellow Sea |
417,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Baltic Sea |
420,000 |
Volume: 20,000 |
|
* |
|
1,600 × 190 |
|
|
|
Don River basin |
422,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
1,870 |
|
|
|
Tobol River basin |
426,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
1,591 |
|
|
|
Java Sea |
433,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Chihuahuan Desert |
450,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Red Sea |
450,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Black Sea |
461,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Syr Darya (Jaxartes River) basin |
462,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
3,020 |
|
|
|
Amu Darya (Oxus River) basin |
465,500 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
2,540 |
|
|
|
Banda Sea |
470,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Sumatra |
473,606 |
35.835,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Beaufort Sea |
476,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
S1 Mimas |
490,000 |
Vol.: 32,000,000 Gravity: 0.008 |
|
** |
|
394 |
|
|
|
Great Basin |
492,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Dnieper River basin |
505,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
2,200 |
|
|
|
Baffin Island |
507,451 |
0.003,552 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Ross Ice Shelf |
520,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Ohio River basin |
528,100 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
1,577 |
|
|
|
Gulf of Aden |
530,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
10 Hygiea |
530,000 |
Vol.: 36,000,000 |
|
** |
|
410 |
|
|
|
Proteus |
544,000 |
Vol.: 37,700,000 |
|
** |
|
416 |
|
|
|
Kalimantan (Indon. Borneo) |
549,032 |
8.637,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
North Sea |
570,000 |
Volume: 50,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Chukchi Sea |
582,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Himalayas (mountains) |
594,400 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Timor Sea |
615,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Colorado River basin (SW U.S.) |
637,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
2,330 |
|
|
|
Mare Orientale (basin) |
640,000 |
0.000,000 |
|
** |
|
900 |
|
|
|
Kolyma River basin |
647,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
2,129 |
|
|
|
Great Victoria Desert |
647,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Darling River basin |
650,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
2,739 |
|
|
|
Arafura Sea |
650,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Columbia River basin |
668,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
2,000 |
|
|
|
Patagonian Desert |
673,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Baffin Bay |
689,000 |
Volume: 593,000 |
|
* |
|
>1,000 × 600 |
|
|
|
Miranda |
700,000 |
Vol.: 55,100,000 Gravity: 0.008 |
|
** |
|
472 |
|
|
|
Laptev Sea |
714,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Borneo (island) |
734,000 |
12.305,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Huang Ho (Yellow River) basin |
745,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
5,464 |
|
|
|
East China Sea |
752,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Great Lakes basin |
766,100 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
1,400 × 1,110 |
|
|
|
S2 Enceladus |
790,000 |
Vol.: 66,000,000 Gravity: 0.009 |
|
** |
|
502 |
|
|
|
New Guinea (island) |
800,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Mekong River basin |
810,600 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
4,350 |
|
|
|
Danube River basin |
817,000 |
N.A. |
|
|
|
2,850 |
|
|
|
Hudson Bay |
819,000 |
Volume: 92,000 |
|
* |
|
1,560 × 1,140 |
|
|
|
Yukon-McNeil River basin |
850,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
3,190 |
|
|
|
Orange River basin |
855,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
2,100 |
|
|
|
4 Vesta |
880,000 |
Vol.: 78,000,000 Gravity: 0.0293 |
|
†‡ |
|
530 |
|
|
|
Rio Grande (Río Bravo) basin |
870,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
2,830 |
|
|
|
Kara Sea |
880,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Tocantins River basin |
906,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
2,699 |
|
|
|
2 Pallas |
920,000 |
Vol.: 82,000,000 Gravity: 0.027 |
|
** |
|
540 |
|
|
|
Kalahari (desert) |
930,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Orinoco River basin |
948,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
2,740 |
|
|
|
Tarim-Yarkand River basin |
951,500 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
2,030 |
|
|
|
Ross Sea |
960,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Sea of Japan |
978,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Tien Shan (Celestial Mtns.) |
1,000,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Philippine Sea |
1,000,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Murray-Darling River basin |
1,072,905 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
3,780 |
|
|
|
Tigris-Euphrates River basin |
1,114,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
2,800 |
|
|
|
Nelson River basin |
1,150,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
650 |
|
|
|
Indus River basin |
1,165,100 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
2,900 |
|
|
|
Greenland Sea |
1,205,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Tibet |
1,221,600 |
2.079,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Gobi (desert) |
1,300,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
North American Desert (low est.) |
1,300,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Zambezi River basin |
1,300,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
3,500 |
|
|
|
200 miles of foliage growing out from 10 mile cometary nucleus |
1,300,000 |
Arboreal volume: 140,000,000 km3 |
|
‡‡ |
|
640 |
|
|
|
Missouri River basin |
1,371,100 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
3,726 |
|
|
|
Volga River basin |
1,380,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
3,530 |
|
|
|
Barents Sea |
1,405,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
St. Lawrence-Great Lakes basin |
1,463,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
4,000 |
|
|
|
Gulf of Alaska |
1,327,000 |
Volume: 3,226,000 |
|
* |
|
1,650 × 325 |
|
|
|
Gulf of Guinea |
1,533,000 |
Volume: 4,592,000 |
|
* |
|
1,900 × 540 |
|
|
|
Gulf of Mexico |
1,543,000 |
Volume: 2,332,000 |
|
* |
|
1,780 × 1,330 |
|
|
|
Sea of Okhotsk |
1,583,000 |
Volume: 1,300,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Ganges-Brahmaputra River basin |
1,621,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
2,897 |
|
|
|
Sunda Shelf |
1,790,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Yangtze River basin |
1,808,500 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
6,300 |
|
|
|
Greenland Ice Sheet |
1,833,900 |
Volume: 2,750,000 |
|
** |
|
2,530 × 1,094 |
|
|
|
Mackenzie River basin |
1,841,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
4,241 |
|
|
|
Amur-Argun River basin |
1,855,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
4,444 |
|
|
|
Niger River basin |
1,890,600 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
4,200 |
|
|
|
North American Desert (high est.) |
1,900,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Bay of Bengal |
2,172,000 |
Volume: 5,616,000 |
|
* |
|
1,850 × 1,720 |
|
|
|
Tasman Sea |
2,300,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Bering Sea |
2,304,000 |
Volume: 3,330,000 |
|
* |
|
2,400 × 1,600 |
|
|
|
Arabian Desert |
2,330,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Lena River basin |
2,490,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
4,400 |
|
|
|
Mediterranean Sea |
2,512,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Yenisey-Selenga River basin |
2,580,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
5,540 |
|
|
|
1 Ceres |
2,700,000 |
Vol.: 425,000,000 Gravity: 0.0271 |
|
†‡ |
|
933 |
|
|
|
Caribbean Sea |
2,754,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Weddell Sea |
2,800,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Great Plains (Gt. Amer. Desert) |
2,900,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Mediterranean and Black Seas |
2,970,000 |
Volume: 4,200,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Ob-Black Irtysh River basin |
2,975,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
5,410 |
|
|
|
Mississippi-Missouri River basin |
3,221,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
5,971 |
|
|
|
Nile River basin |
3,349,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
6,650 |
|
|
|
South China Sea |
3,400,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
S3 Tethys |
3,500,000 |
Gravity: 0.018 |
|
** |
|
1,060 |
|
|
|
Congo River basin |
3,700,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
4,700 |
|
|
|
Arabian Sea |
3,862,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
S4 Dione |
3,900,000 |
Gravity: 0.023 |
|
** |
|
1,120 |
|
|
|
Río de la Plata basin |
4,144,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
4,880 |
|
|
|
Ariel |
4,210,000 |
Gravity: 0.026 |
|
** |
|
1,158 |
|
|
|
Umbriel |
4,300,000 |
Gravity: 0.025 |
|
** |
|
1,170 |
|
|
|
Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea |
4,320,000 |
Volume: 9,600,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Charon (moon) |
4,400,000 |
Gravity: 0.035 |
|
** |
|
1,186 |
|
|
|
Coral Sea |
4,791,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
S8 Iapetus |
6,700,000 |
Gravity: 0.024 |
|
** |
|
1,460 |
|
|
|
Amazon River basin |
7,050,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
6,400 |
|
|
|
Oberon |
7,280,000 |
Gravity: 0.036 |
|
** |
|
1,522 |
|
|
|
S5 Rhea |
7,350,000 |
Gravity: 0.029 |
|
** |
|
1,530 |
|
|
|
Titania |
7,820,000 |
Gravity: 0.038 |
|
** |
|
1,578 |
|
|
|
Australasian Central Sea |
8,140,000 |
Volume: 9,900,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Sahara (desert) |
8,600,000 |
2.500,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
East Antarctic Ice Sheet |
10,200,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Europe |
10,400,000 |
718.500,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Antarctic Ice Sheet |
13,918,000 |
Vol.: 30,000,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Arctic Ocean |
14,090,000 |
Vol.: 17,000,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Antarctica |
14,200,000 |
0.001,000 |
|
|
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Pluto |
16,650,000 |
Gravity: 0.062 |
|
** |
|
2,302 |
|
|
|
South America |
17,814,000 |
308.770,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Triton |
22,900,000 |
Gravity: 0.080 |
|
** |
|
2,700 |
|
|
|
North America |
24,392,000 |
424.523,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Africa |
30,365,700 |
683.021,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
JII Europa |
30,900,000 |
Gravity: 0.135 |
|
** |
|
3,138 |
|
|
|
Moon (Luna) |
37,900,000 |
Vol.: 22 × 109 Gravity: 0.1652 |
|
** |
|
3,476 |
|
|
|
JI Io |
41,400,000 |
Gravity: 0.184 |
|
** |
|
3,630 |
|
|
|
Asia |
44,614,000 |
3,244.000,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
JIV Callisto |
72,400,000 |
Gravity: 0.127 |
|
** |
|
4,800 |
|
|
|
Indian Ocean (w/o marginal seas) |
73,440,000 |
Vol.: 291,000,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Mercury |
74,750,000 |
Gravity: 0.378 |
|
** |
|
4,878 |
|
|
|
Indian Ocean (with marginal seas) |
74,920,000 |
Vol.: 291,900,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Atlantic Ocean (w/o marginal seas) |
82,439,700 |
Vol.: 324,600,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
S6 Titan |
83,300,000 |
Gravity: 0.138 |
|
** |
|
5,150 |
|
|
|
JIII Ganymede |
87,000,000 |
Gravity: 0.145 |
|
** |
|
5,262 |
|
|
|
Atlantic Ocean (with marginal seas) |
106,460,000 |
Vol.: 354,700,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Mars |
144,400,000 |
Gravity: 0.380 |
|
** |
|
6,773 |
|
|
|
Earth (land area) |
149,800,000 |
N.A. |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Pacific Ocean (w/o marginal seas) |
165,250,000 |
Vol.: 707,600,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Pacific Ocean (with marginal seas) |
179,680,000 |
Vol.: 723,700,000 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Great Red Spot |
290,000,000 |
N.A. |
|
** |
|
26,000 × 14,000 |
|
|
|
Earth (oceans, lakes, rivers) |
360,300,000 |
Vol.: 1.370 × 109 |
|
* |
|
N.A. |
|
|
|
Venus |
460,000,000 |
Gravity: 0.878 |
|
** |
|
12,102 |
|
|
|
Earth (Terra) (planet) |
510,100,000 |
Gravity: 1.000 |
|
* |
|
12,735 |
|
|
|
|
7,620,000,000 |
Polar Grav.: 1.177 |
|
** |
|
49,104 |
|
|
|
|
8,200,000,000 |
Equatorial: 0.887 |
|
** |
|
51,118 |
|
|
|
|
42,700,000,000 |
Polar Grav.: 1.239 Equatorial: 0.914 |
|
** |
|
114,632 |
|
|
|
Jupiter |
61,400,000,000 |
Gravity: 2.335 |
|
** |
|
138,262 |
|
|
|
Sun (Sol) |
6.087 × 1012 |
Vol.: 1.412 × 1018 Gravity: 28.0 |
|
†‡ |
|
1,392,000 |
|
|
|
|
Legend |
|
Conversions |
1 |
|
NATO or invited to join |
|
1 mile = 1.609344 km
|
2 |
|
U.S. state or associate |
|
1 km = 0.62137119 mile
|
3 |
|
Other U.S. allies |
|
|
4 |
|
Troublesome countries |
|
1 sq. mi. = 2.5899881 km2
|
5 |
|
Ex-troublesome |
|
1 km2 = 0.38610216 sq. mi.
|
6 |
|
Former Yugoslavia |
|
|
7 |
|
Former Soviet Union |
|
1 cu. mi. = 4.16818283 km3
|
8 |
|
Bodies of water |
|
1 km3 = 0.239912766 cu. mi.
|
9 |
|
Extraterrestrial bodies |
|
|
|
|