Croatia is 1.01× the size of Devon Island

Croatia (country) covers about 55,000 km² (21,200 mi²) and Devon Island (island) about 54,600 km² (21,100 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Devon Island outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

55,000km²Croatia
54,600km²Devon Island

100 km

Croatia
Devon Island

What fits

Devon Island is 99% of the size of Croatia.
Croatia is larger by 375 km² (145 mi²), which is 0.7% of the area of Devon Island.
Measured in Belgiums: Croatia is about 1.79, Devon Island about 1.78.

How they differ

Their centres are about 5,560 km apart.
On a standard web map Devon Island looks larger than Croatia: Croatia at 45°N is drawn about 2.0× too large and Devon Island at 75°N about 15.9×, so the map shows Devon Island as 7.86× the size of Croatia, when Croatia is 1.01× the size of Devon Island.
Together Croatia and Devon Island cover 110,000 km², close to the size of Cuba (110,000 km², 0.2% bigger).
Devon Island's centre is 30.4° of latitude, about 3,380 km, farther north than Croatia's.
Croatia ranks 127th of 212 countries by area.
Devon Island is an island and ranks 26th of the 81 islands on sizeversus by area.
Laid out flat, Croatia stretches about 457 km north to south and 461 km east to west; Devon Island about 297 km by 471 km.
Wikidata’s published figure of 55,200 km² agrees with our measured 54,600 km², to within 2%.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Croatia	1.01×
Farther north	Devon Island	30.4° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Devon Island	15.9× against 2.0×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Croatia	Devon Island
Belgium 30,700 km²	1.79×	1.78×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.23×	0.22×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.15×	0.15×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.15×	0.15×
France 548,000 km²	0.10×	0.10×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.02×	0.02×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	1 in 309	1 in 311

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

Side by side

	Croatia	Devon Island
Is a	CountryEurope	Islandisland on sizeversus
Area, measured	55,000 km²21,200 mi²	54,600 km²21,100 mi²
Area, published	56,600 km²Wikidata	55,200 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	127th of 212countries	26th of 81islands
Latitude range	42°N to 47°N	74°N to 77°N
On the shore	–	1 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.

Natural Earth’s outlines of Canada contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Devon Island. That is what its geometry says, and it is not a statement about who owns the water or where any border runs in it.

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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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