How big it really is
482 km²True area · 186 square miles
196 / 242By area
1.06×As Mercator draws it
63,008 timesFits into Africa
167,294People
347People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Guam is at about 13° 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 1.06× 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:
- Bahrain541 km²
- Micronesia524 km²
- Singapore485 km²
- Guam482 km²
- Andorra442 km²
- Antigua and Barbuda433 km²
- Tonga432 km²