How big it really is
5,672 km²True area · 2,190 square miles
174 / 242By area
1.01×As Mercator draws it
5,354 timesFits into Africa
433,285People
76.4People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Brunei is at about 4° 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 1.01× 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:
- French Southern Lands6,972 km²
- Palestine6,333 km²
- Cyprus5,708 km²
- Brunei5,672 km²
- Trinidad and Tobago5,102 km²
- South Georgia3,669 km²
- Cabo Verde3,585 km²