How big it really is
15,021 km²True area · 5,800 square miles
160 / 242By area
1.02×As Mercator draws it
2,022 timesFits into Africa
1,293,119People
86.1People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Timor-Leste is at about 9° 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 1.02× 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:
- Fiji18,407 km²
- Kuwait17,330 km²
- Eswatini16,992 km²
- Timor-Leste15,021 km²
- Montenegro13,667 km²
- Bahamas12,668 km²
- Falkland Islands11,387 km²