Island
Hispaniola
Natural Earth’s outline of Hispaniola measures about 72,400 km² (28,000 mi²), the 22nd largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and about the same size as Sierra Leone.
- Hispaniola
- Sierra Leone
The numbers
- 72,400km²Area, measured28,000 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 76,400km²Area, publishedWikidata · 5.2% above our measure, flagged
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%. This one is between 5% and 10% apart, so it is flagged and no comparison is built for it automatically.
What the numbers say about Hispaniola
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 30.0× the size of Hispaniola; Hispaniola ranks 22nd.
- Hispaniola sits between Sakhalin (74,500 km²) and Banks Island (70,600 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Hispaniola would be larger than 94 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 119th by area, between Panama (74,500 km²) and Sierra Leone (71,600 km²).
- It is larger than 11 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is West Virginia, 62,700 km²) and smaller than 40.
- 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 US state is South Carolina (80,200 km²): Hispaniola is 90% of the size of South Carolina.
- Hispaniola lies at 19°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.1×.
- Laid out flat, Hispaniola stretches about 253 km north to south and 642 km east to west.
- Our measured 72,400 km² is 5.2% below Wikidata’s published figure of 76,400 km². This difference is flagged for review: a lake’s outline may include islands or bays that the published figure leaves out, or the water level may differ. The outline is kept because it is within 10%, and this page is not matched automatically to any other.
About the same size as
Countries
Where it lies
Natural Earth’s outlines of Dominican Republic and Haiti contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Hispaniola. 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 Hispaniola ranks
Hispaniola is the 22nd 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