Island
North Island
Natural Earth’s outline of North Island measures about 111,000 km² (43,000 mi²), the 13th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and about the same size as Honduras.
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The numbers
- 111,000km²Area, measured43,000 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 114,000km²Area, publishedWikidata · 2.0% 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 North Island
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 19.5× the size of North Island; North Island ranks 13th.
- North Island sits between Java (124,000 km²) and Newfoundland (105,000 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, North Island would be larger than 108 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 105th by area, between Honduras (112,000 km²) and Cuba (110,000 km²).
- It is larger than 17 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Tennessee, 109,000 km²) and smaller than 34.
- 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 Tennessee (109,000 km²): North Island is about the same size as Tennessee.
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 39°S is drawn about 1.6× too large in area, so North Island looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, North Island stretches about 795 km north to south and 524 km east to west.
- Our measured 111,000 km² is 2.0% below Wikidata’s published figure of 114,000 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 New Zealand contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of North Island. 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 North Island ranks
North Island is the 13th 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