How big it really is
156,660 km²True area · 60,487 square miles
93 / 242By area
1.46×As Mercator draws it
194 timesFits into Africa
11,694,719People
74.7People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Tunisia is at about 34° 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 1.46× 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:
- Cambodia181,365 km²
- Uruguay177,567 km²
- Somaliland168,495 km²
- Tunisia156,660 km²
- Nepal147,196 km²
- Suriname145,576 km²
- Tajikistan142,295 km²