How big it really is
77,491 km²True area · 29,919 square miles
118 / 242By area
1.95×As Mercator draws it
392 timesFits into Africa
6,944,975People
89.6People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Serbia is at about 44° 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 1.95× 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:
- Azerbaijan86,404 km²
- Austria83,912 km²
- Czechia78,483 km²
- Serbia77,491 km²
- Panama74,246 km²
- Sierra Leone71,877 km²
- United Arab Emirates71,280 km²