Sicily

The numbers

• 25,300km²Area, measured9,780 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 25,700km²Area, 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 Sicily

• Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 85.7× the size of Sicily; Sicily ranks 40th.
• Sicily sits between Timor (27,900 km²) and Somerset Island (23,900 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, Sicily would be larger than 64 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 149th by area, between North Macedonia (25,400 km²) and Rwanda (25,300 km²).
• It is larger than 9 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Vermont, 24,600 km²) and smaller than 42.
• 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 Maryland (25,500 km²): Sicily is about the same size as Maryland.
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 38°N is drawn about 1.6× too large in area, so Sicily looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Sicily stretches about 179 km north to south and 280 km east to west.
• Wikidata’s published figure of 25,700 km² agrees with our measured 25,300 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 Sicily. 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

• Sicilythe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
• Siciliaalso calledsource: Natural Earth