Bhutan covers 38,394 km² on the new Equal Earth world map, 0.028% of all land on Earth. It ranks 136th of 237 countries worldwide and 36th in Asia. At 27° latitude the old Mercator map inflates area by about 1.3×, drawing it closer to 48,722 km², a difference of roughly 27%.
For scale, Bhutan is roughly the same size as Denmark (42,947 km²).
Bhutan: key figures
| True area | 38,394 km² |
| World rank | 136th |
| Share of world land | 0.028% |
| Rank in Asia | 36th / 52 |
| Old-map (Mercator) inflation | 1.3× |
| Apparent size on Mercator | 48,722 km² |
Largest countries in Asia (true area)
| Asia | |
|---|
| China | 9,596,960 km² |
| India | 3,287,263 km² |
| Kazakhstan | 2,724,910 km² |
| Saudi Arabia | 2,149,690 km² |
| Indonesia | 1,904,569 km² |
| Iran | 1,648,195 km² |