How big it really is
88,861 km²True area · 34,309 square miles
114 / 242By area
1.37×As Mercator draws it
342 timesFits into Africa
10,101,694People
114People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Jordan 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:
- Hungary92,961 km²
- Western Sahara90,795 km²
- Portugal90,760 km²
- Jordan88,861 km²
- Azerbaijan86,404 km²
- Austria83,912 km²
- Czechia78,483 km²