Which Is The Largest Blue Planet Subdivision?

The Regional World is a elementary map of the world which shows the starting fourth dimension sub-national administrative regions of every province inward the world.

The map uses information from Natural Earth to present alone the starting fourth dimension degree of administrative boundaries for each country. There's null specially innovative nigh the map or that surprising really. Larger countries tend to bring large sub-national administrative divisions too smaller countries tend to bring much smaller starting fourth dimension degree administrative boundaries.

However the map is a nifty event of 2 of the biggest problems inward mapping; map projections too administrative boundaries.

The Regional World map suffers from the commons problems caused past times using a Web Mercator projection. Looking at the map NationalParken inward Greenland seems to hold upward the largest administrative percentage inward the world. However the Mercator distortions at the poles agency that it genuinely appears to hold upward a lot bigger than it genuinely is, inward comparing to regions nearer the equator.

Wikipedia says NationalParken is the world's largest National Park only doesn't yell whether it is the largest administrative region. It is 375,000 sq miles, too thus it is huge. Looking at the map, exterior of Greenland, Chukot inward Russian Federation appears to me to hold upward the minute largest admin region. Wikipedia says that 'Chukotka' is 284,827 sq miles inward area.

Down inward the Southern Hemisphere Western Commonwealth of Australia doesn't await anywhere equally large equally NationalParken or Chukotka. Surely it can't hold upward the biggest starting fourth dimension degree admin percentage inward the world. Well Wikipedia says that Western Commonwealth of Australia measures inward at 976,790 sq miles. I recollect nosotros bring a winner.

Or produce we? Wikipedia has a handy List of Country Subdivisions By Area, sorted past times size. In this listing Western Commonwealth of Australia is inward minute place. At the elevation of the listing is the Sakha Republic inward Russia, amongst an expanse of 1,190,555 sq miles. So where is the Republic of Sakha on our Regional World map? It genuinely doesn't appear to exist. The map of Sakha on Wikipedia looks suspiciously similar the expanse labelled Chukot on the Regional World map.

So the existent winner is the Republic of Sakha or the expanse labelled Chukot on the map.