Mercator
Conformal, cylindrical. Meridians and parallels form a rectangular grid, and the spacing between parallels grows toward the poles, so polar regions are hugely enlarged.
Antarctica · ATA · Country profile
Antarctica: true size, area and map scale
Explore the country's geographic outline, see it in different projections and compare it with a familiar scale.
Simplified outline · Natural Earth
- Total surface area
- Unavailable
- Population
- Unavailable
- Population density
- Unavailable
- Land area
- Unavailable
- Capital
- Unavailable Antarctica
- Country code
- ATA ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 / UN M49
Explore the shape
Country shape under different projections
The same country, different ways to show the Earth. Each outline opens a map with this country selected.
Globe (Orthographic)
Neither equal-area nor conformal, perspective azimuthal. It looks like a photograph of the globe from space: only one hemisphere is visible, and areas near the edge of the disk are squeezed hard.
Equal Earth
Equal-area, pseudocylindrical. Parallels are straight lines, the poles are flat lines, and the sides of the map are gently rounded, much like Robinson.
Outlines fit their tiles. They show changes in shape, not areas at a shared scale. The Mercator value estimates area inflation at the country's centre.
Size comparisons: Antarctica
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Questions and sources
Frequently asked questions about size and location
Why does the Antarctica profile not show every statistic?
The selected reference sources do not publish a comparable observation for at least one metric for this territory. RealSize.World displays missing data rather than assigning an unknown source to a legacy value.
Can the Antarctica outline still be compared on the map?
Yes. The Natural Earth outline is a visualization, but without a verified numeric metric it should not be treated as an area measurement or ranking input.
Take a closer look at the data
Each value keeps its own reference year or source edition. Boundaries are simplified and are not suitable for geodetic measurements.
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Geometry: Natural Earth / world-atlas, public domain. Outlines simplified and transformed into map projections. Sources, licences and data coverage.