How big it really is
6,333 km²True area · 2,445 square miles
172 / 242By area
1.39×As Mercator draws it
4,796 timesFits into Africa
4,685,306People
740People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Palestine is at about 32° 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 1.39× 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:
- Lebanon10,012 km²
- Puerto Rico8,945 km²
- French Southern Lands6,972 km²
- Palestine6,333 km²
- Cyprus5,708 km²
- Brunei5,672 km²
- Trinidad and Tobago5,102 km²