Island
Devon Island
Natural Earth’s outline of Devon Island measures about 54,600 km² (21,100 mi²), the 26th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and about the same size as Croatia.
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The numbers
- 54,600km²Area, measured21,100 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 55,200km²Area, 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 Devon Island
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 39.7× the size of Devon Island; Devon Island ranks 26th.
- Devon Island sits between Tasmania (63,200 km²) and Alexander Island (46,000 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Devon Island would be larger than 85 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 128th by area, between Croatia (55,000 km²) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (51,800 km²).
- It is larger than 10 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Maryland, 25,500 km²) and smaller than 41.
- It is larger than 5 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Ningxia, 52,100 km²) and smaller than 26.
- The closest Chinese province is Ningxia (52,100 km²): Devon Island is 1.05× the size of Ningxia.
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 75°N is drawn about 15.9× too large in area, so Devon Island looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Devon Island stretches about 297 km north to south and 471 km east to west.
- Wikidata’s published figure of 55,200 km² agrees with our measured 54,600 km², to within 2%.
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Where it lies
Natural Earth’s outlines of Canada contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Devon 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.
Where Devon Island ranks
Devon Island is the 26th 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