Honduras is 1.01× the size of North Island

Honduras (country) covers about 112,000 km² (43,300 mi²) and North Island (island) about 111,000 km² (43,000 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The North Island outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

112,000km²Honduras
111,000km²North Island

200 km

Honduras
North Island

What fits

North Island is 99% of the size of Honduras.
Honduras is larger by 811 km² (313 mi²), which is 0.7% of the area of North Island.
Measured in Belgiums: Honduras is about 3.66, North Island about 3.63.

How they differ

Their centres are about 11,700 km apart.
On a standard web map North Island looks larger than Honduras: Honduras at 15°N is drawn about 1.1× too large and North Island at 39°S about 1.6×, so the map shows North Island as 1.52× the size of Honduras, when Honduras is 1.01× the size of North Island.
Together Honduras and North Island cover 224,000 km², close to the size of Laos (228,000 km², 2.0% bigger).
Honduras's centre is 53.4° of latitude, about 5,940 km, farther north than North Island's.
Honduras ranks 104th of 212 countries by area.
North Island is an island and ranks 13th of the 81 islands on sizeversus by area.
Laid out flat, Honduras stretches about 393 km north to south and 670 km east to west; North Island about 795 km by 524 km.
Our measured 111,000 km² is 2.0% below Wikidata’s published figure of 114,000 km². Published areas of lakes and seas move with the water level and with what is counted, so a few percent is expected.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Honduras	1.01×
Farther north	Honduras	53.4° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	North Island	1.6× against 1.1×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Honduras	North Island
Belgium 30,700 km²	3.66×	3.63×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.46×	0.46×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.31×	0.31×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.30×	0.30×
France 548,000 km²	0.20×	0.20×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.04×	0.04×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×

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

Side by side

	Honduras	North Island
Is a	CountryNorth America	Islandisland on sizeversus
Area, measured	112,000 km²43,300 mi²	111,000 km²43,000 mi²
Area, published	112,000 km²Wikidata	114,000 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	104th of 212countries	13th of 81islands
Latitude range	13°N to 17°N	42°S to 34°S
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 New Zealand contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of North 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.

Similar in size to Honduras

Similar in size to North 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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