Island
Corsica
Natural Earth’s outline of Corsica measures about 8,640 km² (3,340 mi²), the 67th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and 86% of the size of Lebanon.
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The numbers
- 8,640km²Area, measured3,340 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 8,680km²Area, 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 Corsica
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 251× the size of Corsica; Corsica ranks 67th.
- Corsica sits between Kodiak Island (8,720 km²) and Puerto Rico (island) (8,550 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Corsica 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): Corsica is 1.28× the size of Shanghai.
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 42°N is drawn about 1.8× too large in area, so Corsica looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Corsica stretches about 182 km north to south and 82 km east to west.
- Wikidata’s published figure of 8,680 km² agrees with our measured 8,640 km², to within 2%.
About the same size as
Countries
Where it lies
Natural Earth’s outlines of France contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Corsica. 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
- Corsicathe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
- Corsealso calledsource: Natural Earth
Where Corsica ranks
Corsica is the 67th 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