How big it really is
698 km²True area · 269 square miles
190 / 242By area
1.08×As Mercator draws it
43,510 timesFits into Africa
71,808People
103People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Dominica is at about 15° 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 1.08× 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:
- São Tomé and Príncipe986 km²
- Kiribati938 km²
- Åland Islands760 km²
- Dominica698 km²
- Isle of Man557 km²
- Saint Lucia551 km²
- Bahrain541 km²