How big it really is
69,306 km²True area · 26,759 square miles
122 / 242By area
1.82×As Mercator draws it
438 timesFits into Africa
3,720,382People
53.7People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Georgia is at about 42° 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 1.82× 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:
- Panama74,246 km²
- Sierra Leone71,877 km²
- United Arab Emirates71,280 km²
- Georgia69,306 km²
- Ireland68,699 km²
- Sri Lanka66,044 km²
- Lithuania64,520 km²