Island
Luzon
Natural Earth’s outline of Luzon measures about 103,000 km² (39,700 mi²), the 16th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and about the same size as Iceland.
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- Luzon
- Iceland
The numbers
- 103,000km²Area, measured39,700 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 110,000km²Area, publishedWikidata · 6.4% 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 Luzon
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 21.1× the size of Luzon; Luzon ranks 16th.
- Luzon sits between Cuba (island) (103,000 km²) and Iceland (island) (102,000 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Luzon would be larger than 106 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 107th by area, between Guatemala (109,000 km²) and Iceland (102,000 km²).
- It is larger than 14 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Indiana, 94,300 km²) and smaller than 37.
- It is larger than 8 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Zhejiang, 101,000 km²) and smaller than 23.
- The closest US state is Virginia (104,000 km²): Luzon is about the same size as Virginia.
- Luzon lies at 16°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, Luzon stretches about 671 km north to south and 472 km east to west.
- Our measured 103,000 km² is 6.4% below Wikidata’s published figure of 110,000 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.
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Where it lies
Natural Earth’s outlines of the Philippines contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Luzon. 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 Luzon ranks
Luzon is the 16th 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