Island
New Siberia
Natural Earth’s outline of New Siberia measures about 6,080 km² (2,350 mi²), the 79th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and 1.06× the size of Brunei.
50 km
- New Siberia
- Brunei
The numbers
- 6,080km²Area, measured2,350 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 6,200km²Area, 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 New Siberia
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 357× the size of New Siberia; New Siberia ranks 79th.
- New Siberia sits between East Falkland (6,480 km²) and Wellington Island (5,990 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, New Siberia would be larger than 45 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 168th by area, between Lebanon (10,000 km²) and Palestine (6,070 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 smaller than every one of the 31 provinces and regions of China.
- The closest Chinese province is Shanghai (6,750 km²): New Siberia is 90% of the size of Shanghai.
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 75°N is drawn about 15.1× too large in area, so New Siberia looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, New Siberia stretches about 91 km north to south and 133 km east to west.
- Wikidata’s published figure of 6,200 km² agrees with our measured 6,080 km², to within 2%.
About the same size as
Countries
Where it lies
Natural Earth’s outlines of Russia contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of New Siberia. That is what its geometry says, and it is not a statement about who owns the water or where any border runs in it.
Names
- New Siberiathe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
- Novaya Sibir’ I.also calledsource: Natural Earth
Where New Siberia ranks
New Siberia is the 79th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, ranked by measured area.
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
