Island
Timor
Natural Earth’s outline of Timor measures about 27,900 km² (10,800 mi²), the 39th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and about the same size as Albania.
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The numbers
- 27,900km²Area, measured10,800 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 30,800km²Area, publishedWikidata · 9.3% above our measure, flagged
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%. This one is between 5% and 10% apart, so it is flagged and no comparison is built for it automatically.
What the numbers say about Timor
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 77.8× the size of Timor; Timor ranks 39th.
- Timor sits between Vancouver Island (30,500 km²) and Sicily (25,300 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Timor would be larger than 69 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 144th by area, between Albania (28,300 km²) and the Solomon Islands (27,200 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 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): Timor is 1.10× the size of Maryland.
- Timor 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, Timor stretches about 226 km north to south and 407 km east to west.
- Our measured 27,900 km² is 9.3% below Wikidata’s published figure of 30,800 km². This difference is flagged for review: a lake’s outline may include islands or bays that the published figure leaves out, or the water level may differ. The outline is kept because it is within 10%, and this page is not matched automatically to any other.
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Where it lies
Natural Earth’s outlines of East Timor and Indonesia contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Timor. That is what its geometry says, and it is not a statement about who owns the water or where any border runs in it.
Where Timor ranks
Timor is the 39th 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