Nordaustlandet

The numbers

• 14,000km²Area, measured5,390 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 14,500km²Area, publishedWikidata · 3.5% 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 Nordaustlandet

• Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 156× the size of Nordaustlandet; Nordaustlandet ranks 51st.
• Nordaustlandet sits between Flores Island (14,000 km²) and Sumbawa Island (13,700 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, Nordaustlandet would be larger than 54 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 159th by area, between East Timor (15,100 km²) and Montenegro (13,700 km²).
• It is larger than 4 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Connecticut, 12,700 km²) and smaller than 47.
• 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): Nordaustlandet is 1.10× the size of Connecticut.
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 80°N is drawn about 32.2× too large in area, so Nordaustlandet looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Nordaustlandet stretches about 144 km north to south and 178 km east to west.
• Our measured 14,000 km² is 3.5% below Wikidata’s published figure of 14,500 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

• Norway

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