Island
Kotelny Island
Natural Earth’s outline of Kotelny Island measures about 22,400 km² (8,660 mi²), the 43rd largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and about the same size as Belize.
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- Kotelny Island
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The numbers
- 22,400km²Area, measured8,660 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 23,200km²Area, publishedWikidata · 3.3% above 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 Kotelny Island
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 96.8× the size of Kotelny Island; Kotelny Island ranks 43rd.
- Kotelny Island sits between Sardinia (23,800 km²) and Peloponnese (20,800 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Kotelny Island would be larger than 63 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 150th by area, between Rwanda (25,300 km²) and Belize (22,300 km²).
- It is larger than 7 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Massachusetts, 21,200 km²) and smaller than 44.
- 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 Massachusetts (21,200 km²): Kotelny Island is 1.06× the size of Massachusetts.
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 75°N is drawn about 15.8× too large in area, so Kotelny Island looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Kotelny Island stretches about 172 km north to south and 235 km east to west.
- Our measured 22,400 km² is 3.3% below Wikidata’s published figure of 23,200 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
Countries
Where it lies
Natural Earth’s outlines of Russia contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Kotelny 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
- Kotelny Islandthe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
- Kotelnyalso calledsource: Natural Earth
- Kotel’nyy I.also calledsource: Natural Earth
Where Kotelny Island ranks
Kotelny Island is the 43rd 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