Sea
North Sea
- Surface area
- 570,000 km²
- Measurement held by Wikidata (CC0), converted to the atlas unit. Where Wikidata carries several values that differ by more than 2%, the atlas shows none rather than picking one.
- Maximum depth
- 700 m
- Measurement held by Wikidata (CC0), converted to the atlas unit. Where Wikidata carries several values that differ by more than 2%, the atlas shows none rather than picking one.
- Length
- 960 km
- Measurement held by Wikidata (CC0), converted to the atlas unit. Where Wikidata carries several values that differ by more than 2%, the atlas shows none rather than picking one.
- Width
- 580 km
- Measurement held by Wikidata (CC0), converted to the atlas unit. Where Wikidata carries several values that differ by more than 2%, the atlas shows none rather than picking one.
- Coastal countries
- 7 countries
- Sea limits follow Natural Earth's cartographic outlines. A coast is counted where a land border runs within about 2 km of the outline for at least 10 km. Neighboring seas drawn separately (for example the Aegean within the Mediterranean) are not included.
- Wikidata
- Q1693
Among the world's seas
Each line is every one of the seas 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.
- Surface area570,000 km²21st of 43 · median 470,000 km²
- Maximum depth700 m39th of 50 · median 2,970 m
- Length960 km7th of 10 · median 1,088 km
- Width580 km9th of 17 · median 580 km
Connections
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Neighboring seas