Asia · True size
🇹🇱 Timor-Leste
2.4×
Timor-Leste is drawn 2.4× smaller on the old map than it really is.
True area
15,018 km²
On the old map
2.4×
drawn smaller than true
Distortion rank
#146
of 176 · 1 = most inflated
Share of world land
0.01%
On the old map
Timor-Leste looks about the same size as Palestine on the old map — it isn't.
Shapes above: Timor-Leste at the size the old map gives it, next to Palestine's true size. Timor-Leste's real area is 15,018 km² — Palestine is 6,336 km².
By area
Timor-Leste would fit inside the United Kingdom, New Zealand and the Philippines, by area.
How many fit?
Why the old map gets it wrong
The old map stretches land more the further it is from the equator — twice the area at 45°, four times at 60°. Timor-Leste's middle sits at 9°S, where the stretch is about 1.0×.
Area stretch on the old map at each latitude, equator to 80°. The number at the top of this page compares Timor-Leste's whole share of the old map with its real share of the world's land.
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