Shikoku

The numbers

• 18,100km²Area, measured6,990 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 18,300km²Area, 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 Shikoku

• Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 120× the size of Shikoku; Shikoku ranks 45th.
• Shikoku sits between Peloponnese (20,800 km²) and Halmahera Island (17,500 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, Shikoku would be larger than 57 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 156th by area, between Fiji (18,900 km²) and Kuwait (17,500 km²).
• It is larger than 5 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Hawaii, 16,800 km²) and smaller than 46.
• 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 Hawaii (16,800 km²): Shikoku is 1.08× the size of Hawaii.
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 34°N is drawn about 1.4× too large in area, so Shikoku looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Shikoku stretches about 178 km north to south and 251 km east to west.
• Wikidata’s published figure of 18,300 km² agrees with our measured 18,100 km², to within 2%.

About the same size as

Where it lies

• Japan

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