How big it really is
1,029 km²True area · 397 square miles
186 / 242By area
1.17×As Mercator draws it
29,514 timesFits into Africa
7,507,400People
7,296People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Hong Kong is at about 22° 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 1.17× 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:
- Mauritius1,879 km²
- Comoros1,586 km²
- Faroe Islands1,035 km²
- Hong Kong1,029 km²
- São Tomé and Príncipe986 km²
- Kiribati938 km²
- Åland Islands760 km²