How big it really is
25,364 km²True area · 9,793 square miles
150 / 242By area
1.79×As Mercator draws it
1,197 timesFits into Africa
2,083,459People
82.1People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of North Macedonia is at about 42° 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 1.79× 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:
- Equatorial Guinea26,644 km²
- Solomon Islands25,740 km²
- Rwanda25,386 km²
- North Macedonia25,364 km²
- Belize22,781 km²
- Israel22,051 km²
- Djibouti21,704 km²