How big it really is
286 km²True area · 110 square miles
209 / 242By area
1.05×As Mercator draws it
106,189 timesFits into Africa
112,003People
392People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Grenada is at about 12° 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 1.05× 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:
- US Virgin Islands316 km²
- St Vincent and the Grenadines311 km²
- Cayman Islands301 km²
- Grenada286 km²
- Malta274 km²
- Marshall Islands237 km²
- St Kitts and Nevis233 km²