How big it really is
442 km²True area · 171 square miles
197 / 242By area
1.84×As Mercator draws it
68,710 timesFits into Africa
77,142People
175People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Andorra is at about 43° N. 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 1.84× 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:
- Micronesia524 km²
- Singapore485 km²
- Guam482 km²
- Andorra442 km²
- Antigua and Barbuda433 km²
- Tonga432 km²
- Curaçao430 km²