How big is Croatia really?

Croatia covers 56,594 km² (21,900 sq mi). On the usual world map (the Mercator projection) it is drawn about 2 times bigger than it really is.

See Croatia 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.

Croatia in numbers

Croatia is the 127th largest of the 196 countries and territories in Globegami.
On the map Croatia looks bigger than Liberia, but Liberia is really 1.97 times larger.
Countries of about the same true size: Togo (56,785 km²), Bosnia and Herzegovina (51,209 km²), Costa Rica (51,180 km²).
The United Kingdom is 4.3 times the size of Croatia.

Why the map gets Croatia wrong

Croatia lies around 45°N. A Mercator map stretches distances there by about 1.42 times in every direction, so areas come out roughly 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 Croatia 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