How big is Greece really?

True size vs the map

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

Greece in numbers

• Greece is the 97th largest of the 196 countries and territories in Globegami.
• On the map Greece looks bigger than Guyana, but Guyana is really 1.63 times larger.
• Countries of about the same true size: Tajikistan (143,100 km²), North Korea (120,540 km²), Nicaragua (120,340 km²).
• The United Kingdom is 1.84 times the size of Greece.

Why the map gets Greece wrong

Greece lies around 39°N. A Mercator map stretches distances there by about 1.3 times in every direction, so areas come out roughly 1.68 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 Greece 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.