Island
Vancouver Island
Natural Earth’s outline of Vancouver Island measures about 30,500 km² (11,800 mi²), the 38th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and about the same size as Belgium.
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The numbers
- 30,500km²Area, measured11,800 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 32,100km²Area, publishedWikidata · 5.0% 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 Vancouver Island
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 71.1× the size of Vancouver Island; Vancouver Island ranks 38th.
- Vancouver Island sits between Prince of Wales Island (31,200 km²) and Timor (27,900 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Vancouver Island would be larger than 72 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 141st by area, between Belgium (30,700 km²) and Lesotho (30,100 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 Chinese province is Hainan (33,800 km²): Vancouver Island is 90% of the size of Hainan.
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 50°N is drawn about 2.4× too large in area, so Vancouver Island looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Vancouver Island stretches about 280 km north to south and 363 km east to west.
- Our measured 30,500 km² is 5.0% below Wikidata’s published figure of 32,100 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 Canada contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Vancouver 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.
Where Vancouver Island ranks
Vancouver Island is the 38th 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