Island
Taiwan Island
Natural Earth’s outline of Taiwan Island measures about 35,500 km² (13,700 mi²), the 34th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and 96% of the size of the Netherlands.
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The numbers
- 35,500km²Area, measured13,700 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 35,900km²Area, 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 Taiwan Island
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 61.2× the size of Taiwan Island; Taiwan Island ranks 34th.
- Taiwan Island sits between Spitsbergen (37,000 km²) and Kyushu (35,400 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Taiwan Island would be larger than 75 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 138th by area, between Taiwan (36,200 km²) and Moldova (33,200 km²).
- It is larger than 10 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Maryland, 25,500 km²) and smaller than 41.
- It is larger than 4 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Hainan, 33,800 km²) and smaller than 27.
- The closest Chinese province is Hainan (33,800 km²): Taiwan Island is 1.05× the size of Hainan.
- Taiwan Island lies at 24°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.2×.
- Laid out flat, Taiwan Island stretches about 373 km north to south and 188 km east to west.
- Wikidata’s published figure of 35,900 km² agrees with our measured 35,500 km², to within 2%.
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Where it lies
Natural Earth’s outlines of Taiwan contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Taiwan 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.
The boundary or political status of Taiwan is contested. Size Versus draws the Natural Earth de facto outline and takes no position on it.
Names
- Taiwan Islandthe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
- Taiwanalso calledsource: Natural Earth
Where Taiwan Island ranks
Taiwan Island is the 34th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, ranked by measured area.
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Sources and method
- Outline
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Geography Regions (geography_regions_polys), public domain (Geography Regions (geography_regions_polys)). Outlines of lakes are drawn at 1:10 million.
- Boundary
- A lake or a sea has no legal boundary of its own. The outline is a cartographic one, and the page says so by showing the measured area beside the published one.
- Area basis
- Measured outline: computed on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline and shown rounded. Published figure: Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-11. An outline is kept within 10% of the published figure and matched to other places automatically within 5%.
- Shore
- Countries whose Natural Earth outline contains or comes close to the water's outline; computed, not a statement of ownership.
- Drawing
- Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and two can be laid over each other.
- Data built
- 2026-11-11