Oceania · Australia and New Zealand
Ashmore and Cartier Islands
Wikidata gives 199 km² for Ashmore and Cartier Islands, a figure that may include the sea around it. Natural Earth's outline is too coarse to measure it, so no ranking is shown.
- 2.7km²Area, main territory
- No permanent populationPopulation
- 0.00In Belgiums
0.5 km
- Ashmore and Cartier Islands
Natural Earth draws Ashmore and Cartier Islands with only 5 points, too coarse to measure its land area (2.7 km²). Wikidata gives 199 km², which may include surrounding sea. Treat both figures with caution; Ashmore and Cartier Islands is left out of rankings and comparisons.
Facts
| Area, main territory | 2.7 km²1.0 mi² |
|---|---|
| Official area | 199 km²Wikidata · 99% above our measure |
| In Belgiums | 0.00 |
| Population | No permanent populationNatural Earth, 2019 |
| Density | – people per km² |
| Latitude range | 12°S to 12°S |
| In other languages | Islas Ashmore y Cartier Español · Ashmore- und Cartierinseln Deutsch · Îles Ashmore-et-Cartier Français · Ilhas Ashmore e Cartier Português · アシュモア・カルティエ諸島 日本語 · 阿什莫尔和卡捷群岛 中文 · 애시모어 카르티에 제도 한국어 |
| Continent | Oceania |
What the numbers say about Ashmore and Cartier Islands
- Russia, the largest place listed, is 6,288,959× the size of Ashmore and Cartier Islands.
- Ashmore and Cartier Islands lies at 12°S, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
- Laid out flat, Ashmore and Cartier Islands's main territory stretches about 1.3 km north to south and 2.5 km east to west.
- Natural Earth draws Ashmore and Cartier Islands with only 5 points, too coarse to measure its land area (2.7 km²). Wikidata gives 199 km², which may include surrounding sea. Treat both figures with caution; Ashmore and Cartier Islands is left out of rankings and comparisons.
- Our measured 2.7 km² is 99% below Wikidata's official figure of 199 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.
How Ashmore and Cartier Islands measures up
| Where it ranks | Figure | Position |
|---|
| Compared with | Its area | Ashmore and Cartier Islands is |
|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 30,700 km² | 1 in 11,359 its size |
| United Kingdom | 244,000 km² | 1 in 90,290 its size |
| Germany | 358,000 km² | 1 in 132,472 its size |
| Japan | 374,000 km² | 1 in 138,334 its size |
| France | 548,000 km² | 1 in 202,904 its size |
| India | 3,151,000 km² | 1 in 1,166,943 its size |
| Brazil | 8,473,000 km² | 1 in 3,138,023 its size |
| United States | 9,447,000 km² | 1 in 3,499,030 its size |
| Russia | 16,980,000 km² | 1 in 6,288,959 its size |
Where Ashmore and Cartier Islands sits
- Ashmore and Cartier Islands's centre lies at 12.4°S, 123.6°E, in the southern and eastern hemispheres, about 1,380 km from the equator.
- Its main territory spans 12°S to 12°S, about 0 km from its southern edge to its northern.
Closest neighbours, by distance between centres
On the same latitude, elsewhere in the world
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Sources and method
- Outline
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, public domain
- Boundary
- De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth.
- Area
- Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline, shown rounded
- Official figures
- Area, population and capital from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-11
- Population
- Natural Earth, 2019; covers the whole country, overseas territory included
- Data built
- 2026-11-11