How big it really is
26,806 km²True area · 10,350 square miles
146 / 242By area
1.12×As Mercator draws it
1,133 timesFits into Africa
11,263,077People
420People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Haiti is at about 19° 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 1.12× 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:
- Armenia29,558 km²
- Albania28,335 km²
- Burundi27,208 km²
- Haiti26,806 km²
- Equatorial Guinea26,644 km²
- Solomon Islands25,740 km²
- Rwanda25,386 km²