Seven seas (open ocean) · Western Africa
Saint Helena
Wikidata gives 121 km² for Saint Helena, a figure that may include the sea around it. Natural Earth's outline is too coarse to measure it, so no ranking is shown.
- 125km²Area, main territory
- 3,920Population
- 0.00In Belgiums
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- Saint Helena
Natural Earth draws Saint Helena with only 12 points, too coarse to measure its land area (367 km²). Wikidata gives 121 km², which may include surrounding sea. Treat both figures with caution; Saint Helena is left out of rankings and comparisons.
The outline shows the main territory. Overseas parts, about 242 km² in all, are counted in the figure “with overseas territory” below but are not drawn.
Facts
| Area, main territory | 125 km²48.2 mi² |
|---|---|
| Area with overseas territory | 367 km²142 mi² |
| Official area | 121 km²Wikidata · 203% below our measure |
| In Belgiums | 0.00 |
| Population | 3,920Wikidata, 2022 |
| Density | 11 people per km² |
| Latitude range | 16°S to 16°S |
| In other languages | Santa Elena Español · St. Helena Deutsch · Sainte-Hélène Français · Santa Helena Português · セントヘレナ 日本語 · 圣赫勒拿 中文 · 세인트헬레나 한국어 |
| Continent | Seven seas (open ocean) |
What the numbers say about Saint Helena
- Russia, the largest place listed, is 135,950× the size of Saint Helena.
- Saint Helena lies at 16°S, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.1×.
- Laid out flat, Saint Helena's main territory stretches about 13 km north to south and 15 km east to west.
- Counting overseas territory, Saint Helena grows from 125 km² to 367 km², 194% more.
- Natural Earth draws Saint Helena with only 12 points, too coarse to measure its land area (367 km²). Wikidata gives 121 km², which may include surrounding sea. Treat both figures with caution; Saint Helena is left out of rankings and comparisons.
- Our measured 367 km² is 203% above Wikidata's official figure of 121 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.
How Saint Helena measures up
| Where it ranks | Figure | Position |
|---|
| Compared with | Its area | Saint Helena is |
|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 30,700 km² | 1 in 246 its size |
| United Kingdom | 244,000 km² | 1 in 1,952 its size |
| Germany | 358,000 km² | 1 in 2,864 its size |
| Japan | 374,000 km² | 1 in 2,990 its size |
| France | 548,000 km² | 1 in 4,386 its size |
| India | 3,151,000 km² | 1 in 25,226 its size |
| Brazil | 8,473,000 km² | 1 in 67,836 its size |
| United States | 9,447,000 km² | 1 in 75,640 its size |
| Russia | 16,980,000 km² | 1 in 135,950 its size |
Where Saint Helena sits
- Saint Helena's centre lies at 16.0°S, 5.7°W, in the southern and western hemispheres, about 1,770 km from the equator.
- Its main territory spans 16°S to 16°S, about 10 km from its southern edge to its northern.
Closest neighbours, by distance between centres
On the same latitude, elsewhere in the world
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Sources and method
- Outline
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, public domain
- Boundary
- De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. Main territory: the landmass and every part within 1,000 km of it.
- Area
- Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline, shown rounded
- Official figures
- Area, population and capital from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-11
- Population
- Wikidata, 2022; covers the whole country, overseas territory included
- Data built
- 2026-11-11