How big is Haiti really?
Haiti covers 27,750 km² (10,700 sq mi). On the usual world map (the Mercator projection) it is drawn close to its true size: it lies near the equator, where the usual world map stretches little.
See Haiti 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.
Haiti in numbers
- Haiti is the 147th largest of the 196 countries and territories in Globegami.
- Countries of about the same true size: Burundi (27,834 km²), Equatorial Guinea (28,051 km²), Solomon Islands (28,400 km²).
- The United Kingdom is 8.7 times the size of Haiti.
Why the map gets Haiti wrong
Haiti lies around 19°N. A Mercator map stretches distances there by about 1.06 times in every direction, so areas come out roughly 1.12 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 Haiti 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