How big it really is
524 km²True area · 202 square miles
194 / 242By area
1.01×As Mercator draws it
57,958 timesFits into Africa
113,815People
217People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Micronesia 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 1.01× 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:
- Isle of Man557 km²
- Saint Lucia551 km²
- Bahrain541 km²
- Micronesia524 km²
- Singapore485 km²
- Guam482 km²
- Andorra442 km²