How big it really is
90,760 km²True area · 35,043 square miles
113 / 242By area
1.69×As Mercator draws it
335 timesFits into Africa
10,269,417People
113People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Portugal is at about 40° 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 1.69× 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:
- Liberia95,664 km²
- Hungary92,961 km²
- Western Sahara90,795 km²
- Portugal90,760 km²
- Jordan88,861 km²
- Azerbaijan86,404 km²
- Austria83,912 km²