Island
Ellesmere Island
Natural Earth’s outline of Ellesmere Island measures about 196,000 km² (75,600 mi²), the 9th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and about the same size as Senegal.
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The numbers
- 196,000km²Area, measured75,600 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 196,000km²Area, 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 Ellesmere Island
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 11.1× the size of Ellesmere Island; Ellesmere Island ranks 9th.
- Ellesmere Island sits between Great Britain (214,000 km²) and Sulawesi (166,000 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Ellesmere Island would be larger than 125 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 88th by area, between Senegal (196,000 km²) and Syria (186,000 km²).
- It is larger than 34 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is North Dakota, 183,000 km²) and smaller than 17.
- It is larger than 20 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Jilin, 191,000 km²) and smaller than 11.
- The closest US state is South Dakota (199,000 km²): Ellesmere Island is about the same size as South Dakota.
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 80°N is drawn about 33.3× too large in area, so Ellesmere Island looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Ellesmere Island stretches about 768 km north to south and 528 km east to west.
- Wikidata’s published figure of 196,000 km² agrees with our measured 196,000 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 Ellesmere 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 Ellesmere Island ranks
Ellesmere Island is the 9th 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