How big it really is
95,664 km²True area · 36,936 square miles
110 / 242By area
1.01×As Mercator draws it
317 timesFits into Africa
4,937,374People
51.6People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Liberia is at about 6° 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 1.01× 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:
- Guatemala108,482 km²
- Iceland101,157 km²
- South Korea97,155 km²
- Liberia95,664 km²
- Hungary92,961 km²
- Western Sahara90,795 km²
- Portugal90,760 km²