Island
Halmahera Island
Natural Earth’s outline of Halmahera Island measures about 17,500 km² (6,770 mi²), the 46th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and about the same size as Kuwait.
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The numbers
- 17,500km²Area, measured6,770 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 17,800km²Area, 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 Halmahera Island
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 124× the size of Halmahera Island; Halmahera Island ranks 46th.
- Halmahera Island sits between Shikoku (18,100 km²) and Bathurst Island (15,500 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Halmahera Island would be larger than 57 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 156th by area, between Fiji (18,900 km²) and Kuwait (17,500 km²).
- It is larger than 5 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Hawaii, 16,800 km²) and smaller than 46.
- It is larger than 3 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Beijing, 16,300 km²) and smaller than 28.
- The closest US state is Hawaii (16,800 km²): Halmahera Island is 1.04× the size of Hawaii.
- Halmahera Island lies at 1°N, 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, Halmahera Island stretches about 344 km north to south and 165 km east to west.
- Wikidata’s published figure of 17,800 km² agrees with our measured 17,500 km², to within 2%.
About the same size as
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Where it lies
Natural Earth’s outlines of Indonesia contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Halmahera 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
- Halmahera Islandthe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
- Halmaheraalso calledsource: Natural Earth
Where Halmahera Island ranks
Halmahera Island is the 46th 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