Réunion

The numbers

• 2,500km²Area, measured966 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 2,510km²Area, 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 Réunion

• Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 868× the size of Réunion; Réunion ranks 81st.
• Counted as a country, Réunion would be larger than 37 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 176th by area, between Luxembourg (2,610 km²) and Mauritius (2,000 km²).
• It is larger than 1 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Washington, D.C., 162 km²) and smaller than 50.
• It is smaller than every one of the 31 provinces and regions of China.
• The closest US state is Rhode Island (2,830 km²): Réunion is 88% of the size of Rhode Island.
• Réunion lies at 21°S, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.1×.
• Laid out flat, Réunion stretches about 56 km north to south and 63 km east to west.
• Wikidata’s published figure of 2,510 km² agrees with our measured 2,500 km², to within 2%.

About the same size as

Where it lies

• France

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