How big it really is
316 km²True area · 122 square miles
206 / 242By area
1.10×As Mercator draws it
96,108 timesFits into Africa
106,631People
337People per km²
How Mercator draws it
The middle of US Virgin Islands is at about 18° 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 1.10× 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:
- Barbados389 km²
- Palau341 km²
- Turks and Caicos330 km²
- US Virgin Islands316 km²
- St Vincent and the Grenadines311 km²
- Cayman Islands301 km²
- Grenada286 km²