Seven seas (open ocean) · Central America
Clipperton Island
Clipperton Island covers about 9 km² (3.4 mi²) by the official figure, the 241st largest of the 246 places listed here.
- 8.9km²Area, main territory
- No permanent populationPopulation
- 0.00In Belgiums
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- Clipperton Island
Natural Earth draws Clipperton Island with only 6 points, too coarse to measure its area: our outline measures 5.0 km². The area shown is the official figure from Wikidata, and the drawing is not to true scale.
Facts
| Area, main territory | 8.9 km²3.4 mi² |
|---|---|
| Official area | 8.9 km²Wikidata · 44% above our measure |
| In Belgiums | 0.00 |
| Population | No permanent populationNatural Earth, 2019 |
| Density | – people per km² |
| Latitude range | 10°N to 10°N |
| In other languages | Isla Clipperton Español · Clipperton-Insel Deutsch · Île de Clipperton Français · Ilha de Clipperton Português · クリッパートン島 日本語 · 克利珀顿岛 中文 · 클리퍼턴섬 한국어 |
| Continent | Seven seas (open ocean) |
What the numbers say about Clipperton Island
- Russia, the largest place listed, is 1,907,887× the size of Clipperton Island.
- Clipperton Island lies at 10°N, 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, Clipperton Island's main territory stretches about 3.2 km north to south and 2.6 km east to west.
- Natural Earth draws Clipperton Island with only 6 points, too coarse to measure its area: our outline measures 5.0 km². The area shown is the official figure from Wikidata, and the drawing is not to true scale.
- Our measured 5.0 km² is 44% below Wikidata's official figure of 8.9 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.
How Clipperton Island measures up
| Where it ranks | Figure | Position |
|---|---|---|
| Area | 8.9 km² | 235th of 239 |
| Compared with | Its area | Clipperton Island is |
|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 30,700 km² | 1 in 3,446 its size |
| United Kingdom | 244,000 km² | 1 in 27,391 its size |
| Germany | 358,000 km² | 1 in 40,188 its size |
| Japan | 374,000 km² | 1 in 41,967 its size |
| France | 548,000 km² | 1 in 61,555 its size |
| India | 3,151,000 km² | 1 in 354,016 its size |
| Brazil | 8,473,000 km² | 1 in 951,984 its size |
| United States | 9,447,000 km² | 1 in 1,061,503 its size |
| Russia | 16,980,000 km² | 1 in 1,907,887 its size |
Where Clipperton Island sits
- Clipperton Island's centre lies at 10.3°N, 109.2°W, in the northern and western hemispheres, about 1,150 km from the equator.
- Its main territory spans 10°N to 10°N, 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