Island
Cyprus (island)
Natural Earth’s outline of Cyprus (island) measures about 8,960 km² (3,460 mi²), the 65th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and 90% of the size of Lebanon.
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The numbers
- 8,960km²Area, measured3,460 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 9,230km²Area, publishedWikidata · 3.0% 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 Cyprus (island)
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 242× the size of Cyprus (island); Cyprus (island) ranks 65th.
- Cyprus (island) sits between Prince Charles Island (9,060 km²) and Kodiak Island (8,720 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Cyprus (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): Cyprus (island) is 78% of the size of Tianjin.
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 35°N is drawn about 1.5× too large in area, so Cyprus (island) looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Cyprus (island) stretches about 122 km north to south and 204 km east to west.
- Our measured 8,960 km² is 3.0% below Wikidata’s published figure of 9,230 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 Cyprus, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Akrotiri Sovereign Base Area and Dhekelia Cantonment contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Cyprus (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.
The boundary or political status of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is contested. Size Versus draws the Natural Earth de facto outline and takes no position on it.
Where Cyprus (island) ranks
Cyprus (island) is the 65th 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