The Chesapeake Bay's watershed drains a region of 165,800 square kilometers.
Sources
- Fact Sheet 102-98 - The Chesapeake Bay: Geologic Product of Rising Sea Level (pubs.usgs.gov)
- https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/watershed.html (oceanservice.noaa.gov)
- https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/the-chesapeake-watershed-86815/ (science.nasa.gov)
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