Berkner Island is 1.02× the size of Denmark

Berkner Island (island) covers about 43,600 km² (16,800 mi²) and Denmark (country) about 42,700 km² (16,500 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Berkner Island outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

43,600km²Berkner Island
42,700km²Denmark

100 km

Berkner Island
Denmark

What fits

Denmark is 98% of the size of Berkner Island.
Berkner Island is larger by 861 km² (332 mi²), which is 2.0% of the area of Denmark.
Measured in Belgiums: Berkner Island is about 1.42, Denmark about 1.39.

How they differ

Their centres are about 15,500 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Berkner Island at 79°S is drawn about 29.4× too large and Denmark at 56°N about 3.2×, so the map shows Berkner Island as 9.39× the size of Denmark instead of 1.02×.
Together Berkner Island and Denmark cover 86,300 km², close to the size of Azerbaijan (86,200 km², 0.0% smaller).
The gap between them, 861 km², is about the size of Åland (942 km²).
Denmark's centre is 135.3° of latitude, about 15,050 km, farther north than Berkner Island's.
Berkner Island is an island and ranks 28th of the 81 islands on sizeversus by area.
Denmark ranks 133rd of 212 countries by area.
Laid out flat, Berkner Island stretches about 329 km north to south and 207 km east to west; Denmark about 351 km by 447 km.
Wikidata’s published figure of 43,900 km² agrees with our measured 43,600 km², to within 2%.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Berkner Island	1.02×
Farther north	Denmark	135.3° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Berkner Island	29.4× against 3.2×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Berkner Island	Denmark
Belgium 30,700 km²	1.42×	1.39×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.18×	0.18×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.12×	0.12×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.12×	0.11×
France 548,000 km²	0.08×	0.08×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
United States 9,447,000 km²	1 in 217	1 in 221
Russia 16,980,000 km²	1 in 390	1 in 398

Each figure is the place's area divided by the yardstick's.

Side by side

	Berkner Island	Denmark
Is a	Islandisland on sizeversus	CountryEurope
Area, measured	43,600 km²16,800 mi²	42,700 km²16,500 mi²
Area, published	43,900 km²Wikidata	42,900 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	28th of 81islands	133rd of 212countries
Latitude range	81°S to 78°S	55°N to 58°N
On the shore	0 on the shore	–

Published figures: Wikidata (CC0). A lake or a sea has no legal boundary: the measured area is that of Natural Earth’s outline, and it is shown beside the published one.

Similar in size to Berkner Island

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Sources and method

Outlines: Lakes and seas: Natural Earth 1:10m physical vectors (public domain), kept only where the measured area is within 10% of the published one. Countries and regions: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 and Admin 1, public domain.
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. A lake or a sea has no legal boundary of its own; the outline is a cartographic one.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded. The published figure comes from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-11, and is shown beside the measured one.
Drawing: Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and the two can be laid over each other.
Data built: 2026-11-11

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