Island
Buru Island
Natural Earth’s outline of Buru Island measures about 8,140 km² (3,140 mi²), the 70th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and 81% of the size of Lebanon.
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The numbers
- 8,140km²Area, measured3,140 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 8,470km²Area, publishedWikidata · 3.9% 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 Buru Island
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 267× the size of Buru Island; Buru Island ranks 70th.
- Buru Island sits between Chiloé Island (8,370 km²) and Disko Island (8,140 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Buru Island would be larger than 45 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 168th by area, between Lebanon (10,000 km²) and Palestine (6,070 km²).
- It is larger than 3 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Delaware, 5,170 km²) and smaller than 48.
- It is larger than 1 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Shanghai, 6,750 km²) and smaller than 30.
- The closest Chinese province is Shanghai (6,750 km²): Buru Island is 1.21× the size of Shanghai.
- Buru Island lies at 3°S, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
- Laid out flat, Buru Island stretches about 84 km north to south and 135 km east to west.
- Our measured 8,140 km² is 3.9% below Wikidata’s published figure of 8,470 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 Indonesia contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Buru 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
- Buru Islandthe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
- Burualso calledsource: Natural Earth
Where Buru Island ranks
Buru Island is the 70th 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