Cape Breton Island

The numbers

• 9,950km²Area, measured3,840 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 10,300km²Area, 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 Cape Breton Island

• Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 218× the size of Cape Breton Island; Cape Breton Island ranks 61st.
• Cape Breton Island sits between Bylot Island (10,700 km²) and Mindoro (9,650 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, Cape Breton 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 Tianjin (11,500 km²): Cape Breton Island is 87% of the size of Tianjin.
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 46°N is drawn about 2.1× too large in area, so Cape Breton Island looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Cape Breton Island stretches about 169 km north to south and 126 km east to west.
• Our measured 9,950 km² is 3.5% below Wikidata’s published figure of 10,300 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 Cape Breton 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.