Sardinia

The numbers

• 23,800km²Area, measured9,190 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 23,900km²Area, 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 Sardinia

• Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 91.2× the size of Sardinia; Sardinia ranks 42nd.
• Sardinia sits between Somerset Island (23,900 km²) and Kotelny Island (22,400 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, Sardinia would be larger than 63 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 150th by area, between Rwanda (25,300 km²) and Belize (22,300 km²).
• It is larger than 7 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Massachusetts, 21,200 km²) and smaller than 44.
• It is larger than 3 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Beijing, 16,300 km²) and smaller than 28.
• The closest US state is New Hampshire (24,300 km²): Sardinia is about the same size as New Hampshire.
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 40°N is drawn about 1.7× too large in area, so Sardinia looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Sardinia stretches about 261 km north to south and 137 km east to west.
• Wikidata’s published figure of 23,900 km² agrees with our measured 23,800 km², to within 2%.

About the same size as

Where it lies

• Italy

Natural Earth’s outlines of Italy contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Sardinia. 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

• Sardiniathe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
• Sardegnaalso calledsource: Natural Earth