Island
Bathurst Island
Natural Earth’s outline of Bathurst Island measures about 15,500 km² (5,970 mi²), the 47th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and about the same size as East Timor.
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- Bathurst Island
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The numbers
- 15,500km²Area, measured5,970 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 16,000km²Area, publishedWikidata · 3.5% above our measure
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 Bathurst Island
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 140× the size of Bathurst Island; Bathurst Island ranks 47th.
- Bathurst Island sits between Halmahera Island (17,500 km²) and Prince Patrick Island (15,000 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Bathurst Island would be larger than 55 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 158th by area, between Eswatini (17,100 km²) and East Timor (15,100 km²).
- It is larger than 4 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Connecticut, 12,700 km²) and smaller than 47.
- It is larger than 2 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Tianjin, 11,500 km²) and smaller than 29.
- The closest Chinese province is Beijing (16,300 km²): Bathurst Island is 95% of the size of Beijing.
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 76°N is drawn about 16.7× too large in area, so Bathurst Island looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Bathurst Island stretches about 183 km north to south and 148 km east to west.
- Our measured 15,500 km² is 3.5% below Wikidata’s published figure of 16,000 km². Published areas of lakes and seas move with the water level and with what is counted, so a few percent is expected.
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Where it lies
Natural Earth’s outlines of Canada contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Bathurst 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.
Names
- Bathurst Islandthe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
- Bathurst I.also calledsource: Natural Earth
Where Bathurst Island ranks
Bathurst Island is the 47th 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