Island
Berkner Island
Natural Earth’s outline of Berkner Island measures about 43,600 km² (16,800 mi²), the 28th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and about the same size as Denmark.
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The numbers
- 43,600km²Area, measured16,800 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 43,900km²Area, 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 Berkner Island
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 49.9× the size of Berkner Island; Berkner Island ranks 28th.
- Berkner Island sits between Alexander Island (46,000 km²) and Southampton Island (42,300 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Berkner Island would be larger than 80 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 133rd by area, between Estonia (45,800 km²) and Denmark (42,700 km²).
- It is larger than 10 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Maryland, 25,500 km²) and smaller than 41.
- It is larger than 4 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Hainan, 33,800 km²) and smaller than 27.
- The closest Chinese province is Ningxia (52,100 km²): Berkner Island is 84% of the size of Ningxia.
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 79°S is drawn about 29.4× too large in area, so Berkner Island looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Berkner Island stretches about 329 km north to south and 207 km east to west.
- Wikidata’s published figure of 43,900 km² agrees with our measured 43,600 km², to within 2%.
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Where Berkner Island ranks
Berkner Island is the 28th 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