Island
Banks Island
Natural Earth’s outline of Banks Island measures about 70,600 km² (27,200 mi²), the 23rd largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and about the same size as Ireland.
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The numbers
- 70,600km²Area, measured27,200 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 70,000km²Area, publishedWikidata · agrees within 2%
The area is measured from the outline drawn above, on the WGS84 ellipsoid; the published figure is shown beside it, and a water body is kept only if the two are within 10%.
What the numbers say about Banks Island
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 30.8× the size of Banks Island; Banks Island ranks 23rd.
- Banks Island sits between Hispaniola (72,400 km²) and Sri Lanka (island) (65,700 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Banks Island would be larger than 92 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 121st by area, between the United Arab Emirates (71,100 km²) and Georgia (69,600 km²).
- It is larger than 11 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is West Virginia, 62,700 km²) and smaller than 40.
- It is larger than 5 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Ningxia, 52,100 km²) and smaller than 26.
- The closest US state is West Virginia (62,700 km²): Banks Island is 1.12× the size of West Virginia.
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 73°N is drawn about 11.7× too large in area, so Banks Island looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Banks Island stretches about 383 km north to south and 342 km east to west.
- Wikidata’s published figure of 70,000 km² agrees with our measured 70,600 km², to within 2%.
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Where it lies
Natural Earth’s outlines of Canada contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Banks 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.
Where Banks Island ranks
Banks Island is the 23rd largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, ranked by measured area.
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Sources and method
- Outline
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Geography Regions (geography_regions_polys), public domain (Geography Regions (geography_regions_polys)). Outlines of lakes are drawn at 1:10 million.
- Boundary
- A lake or a sea has no legal boundary of its own. The outline is a cartographic one, and the page says so by showing the measured area beside the published one.
- Area basis
- Measured outline: computed on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline and shown rounded. Published figure: Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-11. An outline is kept within 10% of the published figure and matched to other places automatically within 5%.
- Shore
- Countries whose Natural Earth outline contains or comes close to the water's outline; computed, not a statement of ownership.
- Drawing
- Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and two can be laid over each other.
- Data built
- 2026-11-11