Island
Madagascar (island)
Natural Earth’s outline of Madagascar (island) measures about 589,000 km² (228,000 mi²), the 4th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and about the same size as Kenya.
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The numbers
- 589,000km²Area, measured228,000 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 588,000km²Area, 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 Madagascar (island)
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 3.68× the size of Madagascar (island); Madagascar (island) ranks 4th.
- Madagascar (island) sits between Borneo (725,000 km²) and Baffin Island (509,000 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Madagascar (island) would be larger than 167 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 46th by area, between Morocco (592,000 km²) and Kenya (586,000 km²).
- It is larger than 49 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is California, 410,000 km²) and smaller than 2.
- It is larger than 27 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Sichuan, 485,000 km²) and smaller than 4.
- The closest US state is Texas (685,000 km²): Madagascar (island) is 86% of the size of Texas.
- Madagascar (island) lies at 19°S, 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, Madagascar (island) stretches about 1,500 km north to south and 759 km east to west.
- Wikidata’s published figure of 588,000 km² agrees with our measured 589,000 km², to within 2%.
About the same size as
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Where it lies
Natural Earth’s outlines of Madagascar contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Madagascar (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.
Where Madagascar (island) ranks
Madagascar (island) is the 4th 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