How big is Georgia really?

Georgia covers 69,700 km² (26,900 sq mi). On the usual world map (the Mercator projection) it is drawn about 1.82 times bigger than it really is.

See Georgia 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.

Georgia in numbers

Georgia is the 122nd largest of the 196 countries and territories in Globegami.
On the map Georgia looks bigger than Nicaragua, but Nicaragua is really 1.73 times larger.
Countries of about the same true size: Ireland (69,797 km²), Sierra Leone (71,740 km²), Sri Lanka (65,610 km²).
The United Kingdom is 3.5 times the size of Georgia.

Why the map gets Georgia wrong

Georgia lies around 42°N. A Mercator map stretches distances there by about 1.35 times in every direction, so areas come out roughly 1.82 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 Georgia 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