Kolepom Island

The numbers

• 10,900km²Area, measured4,190 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 10,700km²Area, 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 Kolepom Island

• Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 200× the size of Kolepom Island; Kolepom Island ranks 59th.
• Kolepom Island sits between Bolshevik Island (11,100 km²) and Bylot Island (10,700 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, Kolepom Island would be larger than 47 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 166th by area, between Kosovo (10,900 km²) and the Gambia (10,500 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 larger than 1 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Shanghai, 6,750 km²) and smaller than 30.
• The closest Chinese province is Tianjin (11,500 km²): Kolepom Island is 95% of the size of Tianjin.
• Kolepom 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, Kolepom Island stretches about 115 km north to south and 147 km east to west.
• Wikidata’s published figure of 10,700 km² agrees with our measured 10,900 km², to within 2%.

About the same size as

Where it lies

• Indonesia

Natural Earth’s outlines of Indonesia contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Kolepom 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

• Kolepom Islandthe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
• Kolepomalso calledsource: Natural Earth
• Yos Sudarso I.also calledsource: Natural Earth