Cornwallis Island

The numbers

• 6,710km²Area, measured2,590 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 7,000km²Area, publishedWikidata · 4.1% 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 Cornwallis Island

• Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 324× the size of Cornwallis Island; Cornwallis Island ranks 76th.
• Cornwallis Island sits between Wrangel Island (7,100 km²) and Zealand (6,680 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, Cornwallis 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 smaller than every one of the 31 provinces and regions of China.
• The closest Chinese province is Shanghai (6,750 km²): Cornwallis Island is about the same size as Shanghai.
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 75°N is drawn about 15.2× too large in area, so Cornwallis Island looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Cornwallis Island stretches about 109 km north to south and 90 km east to west.
• Our measured 6,710 km² is 4.1% below Wikidata’s published figure of 7,000 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 Cornwallis 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

• Cornwallis Islandthe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
• Cornwallis I.also calledsource: Natural Earth