Negros

The numbers

• 12,600km²Area, measured4,880 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 13,100km²Area, 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 Negros

• Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 172× the size of Negros; Negros ranks 53rd.
• Negros sits between Sumbawa Island (13,700 km²) and King William Island (12,600 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, Negros would be larger than 53 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 160th by area, between Montenegro (13,700 km²) and the Bahamas (12,600 km²).
• It is larger than 3 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Delaware, 5,170 km²) and smaller than 48.
• It is larger than 2 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Tianjin, 11,500 km²) and smaller than 29.
• The closest US state is Connecticut (12,700 km²): Negros is about the same size as Connecticut.
• Negros lies at 10°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, Negros stretches about 216 km north to south and 128 km east to west.
• Our measured 12,600 km² is 3.3% below Wikidata’s published figure of 13,100 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

Where it lies

• Philippines

Natural Earth’s outlines of the Philippines contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Negros. That is what its geometry says, and it is not a statement about who owns the water or where any border runs in it.