Largest Aquariums in the World
About This Dataset
Largest Aquariums in the World
Public aquariums are ranked by the total volume of water in their tanks, which determines what species they can keep - whale sharks and manta rays need volumes that most facilities cannot provide. This chart lists the largest aquariums by total capacity in millions of litres.
Analysis
Chimelong Spaceship in Hengqin holds 75.4 million litres, 1.55 times the 48.8 million of Chimelong Ocean Kingdom. 3 of these 12 aquariums are in the United States, the most of any country on the chart. The 12 together hold 408.2 million litres, and the top two alone account for 30% of it - the gap between the biggest facilities and the rest is far wider than the gap among the rest.
Key Findings
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Chimelong Spaceship leads in Total water capacity (million litres) with 75.35.
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Average Total water capacity (million litres): 34 · median: 26.
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Gap: Chimelong Spaceship is 4× larger than Shedd Aquarium.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia - List of largest aquariums
- Coverage
- 12 entities · 12 observations
- Measure
- Total water capacity (million litres)
- Last updated
- 10 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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