How big it really is
18,407 km²True area · 7,107 square miles
157 / 242By area
1.10×As Mercator draws it
1,650 timesFits into Africa
889,953People
48.3People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Fiji is at about 18° S. 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 1.10× 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:
- El Salvador20,391 km²
- Slovenia20,195 km²
- New Caledonia18,667 km²
- Fiji18,407 km²
- Kuwait17,330 km²
- Eswatini16,992 km²
- Timor-Leste15,021 km²