How big it really is
237 km²True area · 92 square miles
211 / 242By area
1.02×As Mercator draws it
128,143 timesFits into Africa
58,791People
248People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Marshall Islands is at about 7° 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 1.02× 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:
- Cayman Islands301 km²
- Grenada286 km²
- Malta274 km²
- Marshall Islands237 km²
- St Kitts and Nevis233 km²
- St. Pierre and Miquelon205 km²
- Niue197 km²