How big it really is
541 km²True area · 209 square miles
193 / 242By area
1.24×As Mercator draws it
56,137 timesFits into Africa
1,641,172People
3,034People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Bahrain is at about 26° 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 1.24× 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:
- Dominica698 km²
- Isle of Man557 km²
- Saint Lucia551 km²
- Bahrain541 km²
- Micronesia524 km²
- Singapore485 km²
- Guam482 km²