How big it really is
3,669 km²True area · 1,417 square miles
176 / 242By area
2.95×As Mercator draws it
8,277 timesFits into Africa
30People
0.01People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of South Georgia is at about 54° 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 2.95× 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:
- Cyprus5,708 km²
- Brunei5,672 km²
- Trinidad and Tobago5,102 km²
- South Georgia3,669 km²
- Cabo Verde3,585 km²
- Northern Cyprus3,471 km²
- Samoa2,702 km²