How big it really is
74,246 km²True area · 28,667 square miles
119 / 242By area
1.02×As Mercator draws it
409 timesFits into Africa
4,246,439People
57.2People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Panama is at about 9° 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 1.02× 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:
- Austria83,912 km²
- Czechia78,483 km²
- Serbia77,491 km²
- Panama74,246 km²
- Sierra Leone71,877 km²
- United Arab Emirates71,280 km²
- Georgia69,306 km²