Island
Sakhalin
Natural Earth’s outline of Sakhalin measures about 74,500 km² (28,800 mi²), the 21st largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and about the same size as Panama.
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The numbers
- 74,500km²Area, measured28,800 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 72,500km²Area, publishedWikidata · 2.8% below 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 Sakhalin
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 29.2× the size of Sakhalin; Sakhalin ranks 21st.
- Sakhalin sits between Hokkaidō (77,100 km²) and Hispaniola (72,400 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Sakhalin would be larger than 94 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 119th by area, between Panama (74,500 km²) and Sierra Leone (71,600 km²).
- It is larger than 11 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is West Virginia, 62,700 km²) and smaller than 40.
- It is larger than 5 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Ningxia, 52,100 km²) and smaller than 26.
- The closest US state is South Carolina (80,200 km²): Sakhalin is 93% of the size of South Carolina.
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 50°N is drawn about 2.4× too large in area, so Sakhalin looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Sakhalin stretches about 945 km north to south and 219 km east to west.
- Our measured 74,500 km² is 2.8% above Wikidata’s published figure of 72,500 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 Russia contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Sakhalin. 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 Sakhalin ranks
Sakhalin is the 21st 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