How big it really is
174 km²True area · 67 square miles
216 / 242By area
1.01×As Mercator draws it
174,540 timesFits into Africa
97,625People
561People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Seychelles is at about 5° S. 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 1.01× 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:
- St. Pierre and Miquelon205 km²
- Niue197 km²
- Saint Helena186 km²
- Seychelles174 km²
- Aruba155 km²
- Indian Ocean Territories144 km²
- Liechtenstein138 km²