Hood Canal is a fjord-like body of water that lies west of Admiralty Inlet in Washington state that many people consider to be the western lobe and one of the four main basins of Puget Sound. It is one of the minor bodies of water that constitute the Salish Sea. Hood Canal is not a canal in the sense of an artificial waterway—it is a natural feature.
Hood Canal is long and narrow with an average width of 2.4 km and a mean depth of 53.8 m. It has 342.6 kilometres of shoreline and 42.4 square kilometres of tideland. Its surface area is 385.6 square kilometres and it contains a volume of water totaling 21 cubic kilometres.
