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Lake

Sea of Galilee

Surface area
168 km²
Elevation
-213 m
Length
21 km
Width
12 km
Drainage basin
273 km²
Named after
Tiberias
Countries
Israel
Wikidata
Q126982

Among the world's lakes

Each line is every one of the lakes in this atlas that carries the measurement, ordered smallest to largest. The line down the middle is the median; the mark on each line is this one. Deserts are not ranked against lakes — the comparison is always within the same kind.

  1. Surface area168 km²264th of 319 · median 536 km²
  2. Elevation-213 m332nd of 333 · median 278 m
  3. Length21 km235th of 255 · median 66 km
  4. Width12 km168th of 221 · median 20 km
  5. Drainage basin273 km²160th of 162 · median 12,298 km²

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