How big it really is
26,644 km²True area · 10,287 square miles
147 / 242By area
1.00×As Mercator draws it
1,140 timesFits into Africa
1,355,986People
50.9People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Equatorial Guinea is at about 2° 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 1.00× 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:
- Albania28,335 km²
- Burundi27,208 km²
- Haiti26,806 km²
- Equatorial Guinea26,644 km²
- Solomon Islands25,740 km²
- Rwanda25,386 km²
- North Macedonia25,364 km²