How big it really is
662,773 km²True area · 255,898 square miles
41 / 242By area
1.15×As Mercator draws it
46 timesFits into Africa
54,045,420People
81.5People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Myanmar is at about 21° 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 1.15× 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:
- Turkey779,831 km²
- Zambia755,605 km²
- Chile737,458 km²
- Myanmar662,773 km²
- Afghanistan642,052 km²
- France635,054 km²
- South Sudan623,981 km²