Island
Tasmania
Natural Earth’s outline of Tasmania measures about 63,200 km² (24,400 mi²), the 25th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and about the same size as Latvia.
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The numbers
- 63,200km²Area, measured24,400 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 65,000km²Area, publishedWikidata · 2.8% 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 Tasmania
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 34.3× the size of Tasmania; Tasmania ranks 25th.
- Tasmania sits between Sri Lanka (island) (65,700 km²) and Devon Island (54,600 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Tasmania would be larger than 87 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 126th by area, between Latvia (64,600 km²) and Togo (56,900 km²).
- It is larger than 11 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is West Virginia, 62,700 km²) and smaller than 40.
- It is larger than 5 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Ningxia, 52,100 km²) and smaller than 26.
- The closest US state is West Virginia (62,700 km²): Tasmania is about the same size as West Virginia.
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 42°S is drawn about 1.8× too large in area, so Tasmania looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Tasmania stretches about 325 km north to south and 308 km east to west.
- Our measured 63,200 km² is 2.8% below Wikidata’s published figure of 65,000 km². Published areas of lakes and seas move with the water level and with what is counted, so a few percent is expected.
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Where it lies
Natural Earth’s outlines of Australia contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Tasmania. 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
- Tasmaniathe name in this page’s titlesource: Wikidata’s English label
- Mainland Tasmaniaalso calledsource: Natural Earth
Where Tasmania ranks
Tasmania is the 25th 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