How big it really is
22,051 km²True area · 8,514 square miles
152 / 242By area
1.37×As Mercator draws it
1,377 timesFits into Africa
9,053,300People
411People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Israel is at about 31° 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 1.37× 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:
- Rwanda25,386 km²
- North Macedonia25,364 km²
- Belize22,781 km²
- Israel22,051 km²
- Djibouti21,704 km²
- El Salvador20,391 km²
- Slovenia20,195 km²