How big it really is
330 km²True area · 127 square miles
205 / 242By area
1.16×As Mercator draws it
92,030 timesFits into Africa
38,191People
116People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of Turks and Caicos is at about 22° 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 1.16× 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:
- Northern Mariana Islands394 km²
- Barbados389 km²
- Palau341 km²
- Turks and Caicos330 km²
- US Virgin Islands316 km²
- St Vincent and the Grenadines311 km²
- Cayman Islands301 km²