Island
Mindanao
Natural Earth’s outline of Mindanao measures about 92,000 km² (35,500 mi²), the 18th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and about the same size as Portugal.
500 km
- Mindanao
- Portugal
The numbers
- 92,000km²Area, measured35,500 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 97,500km²Area, publishedWikidata · 5.7% 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 Mindanao
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 23.6× the size of Mindanao; Mindanao ranks 18th.
- Mindanao sits between Iceland (island) (102,000 km²) and Ireland (island) (81,600 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Mindanao would be larger than 102 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 111th by area, between Hungary (93,200 km²) and Portugal (91,400 km²).
- It is larger than 13 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Maine, 84,300 km²) and smaller than 38.
- It is larger than 6 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Chongqing, 82,400 km²) and smaller than 25.
- The closest US state is Indiana (94,300 km²): Mindanao is about the same size as Indiana.
- Mindanao lies at 8°N, 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, Mindanao stretches about 463 km north to south and 517 km east to west.
- Our measured 92,000 km² is 5.7% below Wikidata’s published figure of 97,500 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.
About the same size as
Countries
Where it lies
Natural Earth’s outlines of the Philippines contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Mindanao. 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 Mindanao ranks
Mindanao is the 18th 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