How big it really is
78,483 km²True area · 30,302 square miles
117 / 242By area
2.39×As Mercator draws it
387 timesFits into Africa
10,669,709People
136People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Czechia is at about 50° 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 2.39× 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:
- Jordan88,861 km²
- Azerbaijan86,404 km²
- Austria83,912 km²
- Czechia78,483 km²
- Serbia77,491 km²
- Panama74,246 km²
- Sierra Leone71,877 km²