How big it really is
120 km²True area · 46 square miles
224 / 242By area
1.07×As Mercator draws it
253,083 timesFits into Africa
55,312People
461People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of American Samoa is at about 14° S. Mercator stretches each place by the same amount across and up, more the further it is from the equator, so here every area comes out 1.07× its true size.
At the equator nothing is stretched. At 60° north or south, everything is drawn at four times its true area. The poles never fit on the map at all.
Countries about this size
The countries just bigger and just smaller, each at its true area:
- British Indian Ocean Territory132 km²
- Wallis and Futuna132 km²
- Jersey126 km²
- American Samoa120 km²
- Anguilla83.0 km²
- Montserrat80.0 km²
- San Marino68.0 km²