How big is Austria really?

Austria covers 83,879 km² (32,400 sq mi). On the usual world map (the Mercator projection) it is drawn about 2.2 times bigger than it really is.

See Austria at its true size on the map →

True size vs the map

Both drawn at the same scale. The map keeps shapes but swells everything away from the equator.

Austria in numbers

Austria is the 115th largest of the 196 countries and territories in Globegami.
On the map Austria looks bigger than Somaliland, but Somaliland is really 2.1 times larger.
Countries of about the same true size: United Arab Emirates (83,600 km²), Azerbaijan (86,600 km²), Czechia (78,871 km²).
The United Kingdom is 2.9 times the size of Austria.

Why the map gets Austria wrong

Austria lies around 48°N. A Mercator map stretches distances there by about 1.48 times in every direction, so areas come out roughly 2.2 times too big near its middle. Most web maps use this projection because it keeps angles and shapes right for navigation, not because it shows sizes fairly.

In Globegami you can drag a copy of Austria anywhere on Earth: it keeps its true size and grows or shrinks on the map as it moves, and you can fold the map back into a globe.

Areas: official totals including inland water (UN Statistics Division via Wikidata). Outlines: Natural Earth. How Globegami works