Somerset Island

The numbers

• 23,900km²Area, measured9,240 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 24,800km²Area, publishedWikidata · 3.5% above 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 Somerset Island

• Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 90.8× the size of Somerset Island; Somerset Island ranks 41st.
• Somerset Island sits between Sicily (25,300 km²) and Sardinia (23,800 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, Somerset Island 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): Somerset Island is about the same size as New Hampshire.
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 73°N is drawn about 12.1× too large in area, so Somerset Island looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Somerset Island stretches about 239 km north to south and 166 km east to west.
• Our measured 23,900 km² is 3.5% below Wikidata’s published figure of 24,800 km². Published areas of lakes and seas move with the water level and with what is counted, so a few percent is expected.

About the same size as

Where it lies

• Canada

Natural Earth’s outlines of Canada contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Somerset Island. 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

• Somerset Islandthe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
• Somerset I.also calledsource: Natural Earth