Sumbawa Island

The numbers

• 13,700km²Area, measured5,280 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 14,400km²Area, publishedWikidata · 4.9% 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 Sumbawa Island

• Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 159× the size of Sumbawa Island; Sumbawa Island ranks 52nd.
• Sumbawa Island sits between Nordaustlandet (14,000 km²) and Negros (12,600 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, Sumbawa Island would be larger than 53 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 160th by area, between Montenegro (13,700 km²) and the Bahamas (12,600 km²).
• It is larger than 4 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Connecticut, 12,700 km²) and smaller than 47.
• It is larger than 2 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Tianjin, 11,500 km²) and smaller than 29.
• The closest US state is Connecticut (12,700 km²): Sumbawa Island is 1.08× the size of Connecticut.
• Sumbawa Island lies at 9°S, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
• Laid out flat, Sumbawa Island stretches about 112 km north to south and 260 km east to west.
• Our measured 13,700 km² is 4.9% below Wikidata’s published figure of 14,400 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

• Indonesia

Natural Earth’s outlines of Indonesia contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Sumbawa 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

• Sumbawa Islandthe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
• Sumbawaalso calledsource: Natural Earth