How big is Siachen Glacier really?

True size vs the map

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

Siachen Glacier in numbers

• Siachen Glacier is the 181st largest of the 196 countries and territories in Globegami.
• On the map Siachen Glacier looks bigger than Samoa, but Samoa is really 1.34 times larger.
• Countries of about the same true size: Mauritius (2,040 km²), Comoros (2,034 km²), Luxembourg (2,593 km²).
• The United Kingdom is 114 times the size of Siachen Glacier.

Why the map gets Siachen Glacier wrong

Siachen Glacier lies around 35°N. A Mercator map stretches distances there by about 1.23 times in every direction, so areas come out roughly 1.5 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 Siachen Glacier 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.