Bylot Island

The numbers

• 10,700km²Area, measured4,130 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 11,100km²Area, publishedWikidata · 3.4% 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 Bylot Island

• Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 203× the size of Bylot Island; Bylot Island ranks 60th.
• Bylot Island sits between Kolepom Island (10,900 km²) and Cape Breton Island (9,950 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, Bylot Island would be larger than 47 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 166th by area, between Kosovo (10,900 km²) and the Gambia (10,500 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 Tianjin (11,500 km²): Bylot Island is 93% of the size of Tianjin.
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 73°N is drawn about 12.0× too large in area, so Bylot Island looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Bylot Island stretches about 108 km north to south and 150 km east to west.
• Our measured 10,700 km² is 3.4% below Wikidata’s published figure of 11,100 km². Published areas of lakes and seas move with the water level and with what is counted, so a few percent is expected.

About the same size as

Where it lies

• Canada

Natural Earth’s outlines of Canada contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Bylot 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.