I'm not a super duper expert on sizes other than I knew this would be mid-size and not HUGE and not small.  But, if this makes sense...it's bigger than I thought it'd be, yet, after initially seeing the box it was delivered it, then became smaller than I thought it'd be.  Quite a bit of packaging/padding fooled me!  But, it'll do!  It's a garbage can, not sure what more can be said.  :)