East Falkland

The numbers

• 6,480km²Area, measured2,500 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 6,610km²Area, 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 East Falkland

• Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 335× the size of East Falkland; East Falkland ranks 78th.
• East Falkland sits between Zealand (6,680 km²) and New Siberia (6,080 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, East Falkland 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): East Falkland is 96% of the size of Shanghai.
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 52°S is drawn about 2.6× too large in area, so East Falkland looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, East Falkland stretches about 116 km north to south and 137 km east to west.
• Wikidata’s published figure of 6,610 km² agrees with our measured 6,480 km², to within 2%.

About the same size as

Where it lies

• Falkland Islands

Natural Earth’s outlines of Falkland Islands contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of East Falkland. 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 Falkland Islands is contested. Size Versus draws the Natural Earth de facto outline and takes no position on it.