Island
Newfoundland
Natural Earth’s outline of Newfoundland measures about 105,000 km² (40,700 mi²), the 14th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and about the same size as Iceland.
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- Newfoundland
- Iceland
The numbers
- 105,000km²Area, measured40,700 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 109,000km²Area, publishedWikidata · 3.2% 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 Newfoundland
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 20.6× the size of Newfoundland; Newfoundland ranks 14th.
- Newfoundland sits between North Island (111,000 km²) and Cuba (island) (103,000 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Newfoundland 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 16 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Kentucky, 105,000 km²) and smaller than 35.
- 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 Kentucky (105,000 km²): Newfoundland is about the same size as Kentucky.
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 49°N is drawn about 2.3× too large in area, so Newfoundland looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Newfoundland stretches about 544 km north to south and 499 km east to west.
- Our measured 105,000 km² is 3.2% below Wikidata’s published figure of 109,000 km². Published areas of lakes and seas move with the water level and with what is counted, so a few percent is expected.
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Where it lies
Natural Earth’s outlines of Canada contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Newfoundland. 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
- Newfoundlandthe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
- ISLAND OF NEWFOUNDLANDalso calledsource: Natural Earth
Where Newfoundland ranks
Newfoundland is the 14th 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