How big it really is
181,365 km²True area · 70,025 square miles
90 / 242By area
1.05×As Mercator draws it
167 timesFits into Africa
16,486,542People
90.9People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Cambodia is at about 13° 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 1.05× 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:
- Kyrgyzstan198,653 km²
- Senegal197,331 km²
- Syria185,974 km²
- Cambodia181,365 km²
- Uruguay177,567 km²
- Somaliland168,495 km²
- Tunisia156,660 km²