Island
Kyushu
Natural Earth’s outline of Kyushu measures about 35,400 km² (13,700 mi²), the 35th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and 95% of the size of the Netherlands.
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The numbers
- 35,400km²Area, measured13,700 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 36,800km²Area, publishedWikidata · 3.8% 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 Kyushu
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 61.4× the size of Kyushu; Kyushu ranks 35th.
- Kyushu sits between Taiwan Island (35,500 km²) and Hainan Island (33,800 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Kyushu would be larger than 75 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 138th by area, between Taiwan (36,200 km²) and Moldova (33,200 km²).
- It is larger than 10 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Maryland, 25,500 km²) and smaller than 41.
- It is larger than 4 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Hainan, 33,800 km²) and smaller than 27.
- The closest Chinese province is Hainan (33,800 km²): Kyushu is 1.05× the size of Hainan.
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 33°N is drawn about 1.4× too large in area, so Kyushu looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Kyushu stretches about 324 km north to south and 226 km east to west.
- Our measured 35,400 km² is 3.8% below Wikidata’s published figure of 36,800 km². Published areas of lakes and seas move with the water level and with what is counted, so a few percent is expected.
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Where it lies
Natural Earth’s outlines of Japan contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Kyushu. 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 Kyushu ranks
Kyushu is the 35th 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