How big it really is
20,195 km²True area · 7,797 square miles
155 / 242By area
2.08×As Mercator draws it
1,504 timesFits into Africa
2,087,946People
103People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Slovenia is at about 46° 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 2.08× 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:
- Israel22,051 km²
- Djibouti21,704 km²
- El Salvador20,391 km²
- Slovenia20,195 km²
- New Caledonia18,667 km²
- Fiji18,407 km²
- Kuwait17,330 km²