How big is Lithuania really?

Lithuania covers 65,300 km² (25,200 sq mi). On the usual world map (the Mercator projection) it is drawn about 3.1 times bigger than it really is.

See Lithuania 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.

Lithuania in numbers

Lithuania is the 124th largest of the 196 countries and territories in Globegami.
On the map Lithuania looks bigger than Cambodia, but Cambodia is really 2.8 times larger.
Countries of about the same true size: Sri Lanka (65,610 km²), Latvia (64,594 km²), Georgia (69,700 km²).
The United Kingdom is 3.7 times the size of Lithuania.

Why the map gets Lithuania wrong

Lithuania lies around 55°N. A Mercator map stretches distances there by about 1.76 times in every direction, so areas come out roughly 3.1 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 Lithuania 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