How big it really is
5,708 km²True area · 2,204 square miles
173 / 242By area
1.49×As Mercator draws it
5,321 timesFits into Africa
1,198,575People
210People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Cyprus is at about 35° 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 1.49× 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:
- Puerto Rico8,945 km²
- French Southern Lands6,972 km²
- Palestine6,333 km²
- Cyprus5,708 km²
- Brunei5,672 km²
- Trinidad and Tobago5,102 km²
- South Georgia3,669 km²