How big it really is
394 km²True area · 152 square miles
202 / 242By area
1.07×As Mercator draws it
77,081 timesFits into Africa
57,216People
145People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Northern Mariana Islands is at about 15° 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 1.07× 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:
- Tonga432 km²
- Curaçao430 km²
- Heard and McDonald Islands419 km²
- Northern Mariana Islands394 km²
- Barbados389 km²
- Palau341 km²
- Turks and Caicos330 km²