Zealand

The numbers

• 6,680km²Area, measured2,580 mi² · Natural Earth outline
• 7,030km²Area, publishedWikidata · 4.9% 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 Zealand

• Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 325× the size of Zealand; Zealand ranks 77th.
• Zealand sits between Cornwallis Island (6,710 km²) and East Falkland (6,480 km²) in the ranking.
• Counted as a country, Zealand would be larger than 45 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 168th by area, between Lebanon (10,000 km²) and Palestine (6,070 km²).
• It is larger than 3 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Delaware, 5,170 km²) and smaller than 48.
• It is smaller than every one of the 31 provinces and regions of China.
• The closest Chinese province is Shanghai (6,750 km²): Zealand is about the same size as Shanghai.
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 56°N is drawn about 3.1× too large in area, so Zealand looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Zealand stretches about 128 km north to south and 102 km east to west.
• Our measured 6,680 km² is 4.9% below Wikidata’s published figure of 7,030 km². Published areas of lakes and seas move with the water level and with what is counted, so a few percent is expected.

About the same size as

Where it lies

• Denmark

Natural Earth’s outlines of Denmark contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Zealand. That is what its geometry says, and it is not a statement about who owns the water or where any border runs in it.