How big it really is
27,208 km²True area · 10,505 square miles
145 / 242By area
1.00×As Mercator draws it
1,116 timesFits into Africa
11,530,580People
424People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Burundi is at about 3° 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 1.00× 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:
- Lesotho30,028 km²
- Armenia29,558 km²
- Albania28,335 km²
- Burundi27,208 km²
- Haiti26,806 km²
- Equatorial Guinea26,644 km²
- Solomon Islands25,740 km²