Island
Victoria Island
Natural Earth’s outline of Victoria Island measures about 220,000 km² (84,800 mi²), the 7th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and 96% of the size of Laos.
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The numbers
- 220,000km²Area, measured84,800 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 217,000km²Area, 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 Victoria Island
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 9.88× the size of Victoria Island; Victoria Island ranks 7th.
- Victoria Island sits between Honshu (225,000 km²) and Great Britain (214,000 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Victoria Island would be larger than 129 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 84th by area, between Laos (228,000 km²) and Guyana (211,000 km²).
- It is larger than 38 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Idaho, 216,000 km²) and smaller than 13.
- It is larger than 22 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Hunan, 211,000 km²) and smaller than 9.
- The closest US state is Utah (220,000 km²): Victoria Island is about the same size as Utah.
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 71°N is drawn about 9.3× too large in area, so Victoria Island looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Victoria Island stretches about 546 km north to south and 660 km east to west.
- Wikidata’s published figure of 217,000 km² agrees with our measured 220,000 km², to within 2%.
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Where it lies
Natural Earth’s outlines of Canada contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Victoria 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 Victoria Island ranks
Victoria Island is the 7th 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