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Indonesia vs Mexico
Mexico, by less than it feels. It measures 1,962,308 km² against Indonesia’s 1,872,270 km², a gap of 90,038 km².
Mexico1,962,308 km²
Indonesia1,872,270 km²
Mexico wins by90,038 km²
The gap is aboutone Portugal
One is the world’s largest archipelago, strung along the equator, where Mercator draws land at its stingiest. The other is a single block in North America. The folders are different. The areas are not.
Indonesia placed on Mexico, on Equal Earth. The archipelago covers most of the country. The leftover is real, and it is not a different league. Open this scene on the full map.
Areas are the shapes drawn on Map Real Size, measured on the sphere. Official land-area tables differ where they include inland water, a different coastline, or a disputed border. Why they don’t feel the same size.