Island
Flores Island
Natural Earth’s outline of Flores Island measures about 14,000 km² (5,390 mi²), the 50th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and about the same size as Montenegro.
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- Flores Island
- Montenegro
The numbers
- 14,000km²Area, measured5,390 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 13,500km²Area, publishedWikidata · 3.1% below 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 Flores Island
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 155× the size of Flores Island; Flores Island ranks 50th.
- Flores Island sits between October Revolution Island (14,300 km²) and Nordaustlandet (14,000 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Flores Island would be larger than 54 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 159th by area, between East Timor (15,100 km²) and Montenegro (13,700 km²).
- It is larger than 4 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Connecticut, 12,700 km²) and smaller than 47.
- It is larger than 2 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Tianjin, 11,500 km²) and smaller than 29.
- The closest US state is Connecticut (12,700 km²): Flores Island is 1.10× the size of Connecticut.
- Flores Island lies at 8°S, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
- Laid out flat, Flores Island stretches about 9,990 km north to south and 6,990 km east to west.
- Our measured 14,000 km² is 3.1% above Wikidata’s published figure of 13,500 km². Published areas of lakes and seas move with the water level and with what is counted, so a few percent is expected.
About the same size as
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Where it lies
Natural Earth’s outlines of Indonesia and Portugal contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Flores 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.
Names
- Flores Islandthe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
- Floresalso calledsource: Natural Earth
Where Flores Island ranks
Flores Island is the 50th 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