How big it really is
301 km²True area · 116 square miles
208 / 242By area
1.12×As Mercator draws it
100,897 timesFits into Africa
64,948People
216People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Cayman Islands is at about 19° 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 1.12× 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:
- Turks and Caicos330 km²
- US Virgin Islands316 km²
- St Vincent and the Grenadines311 km²
- Cayman Islands301 km²
- Grenada286 km²
- Malta274 km²
- Marshall Islands237 km²