How big it really is
1,035 km²True area · 400 square miles
185 / 242By area
4.59×As Mercator draws it
29,343 timesFits into Africa
48,678People
47.0People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Faroe Islands is at about 62° 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 4.59× 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:
- Siachen Glacier2,118 km²
- Mauritius1,879 km²
- Comoros1,586 km²
- Faroe Islands1,035 km²
- Hong Kong1,029 km²
- São Tomé and Príncipe986 km²
- Kiribati938 km²