Kazakhstan covers 2,724,910 km² on the new Equal Earth world map, 2.0% of all land on Earth. It ranks 9th of 237 countries worldwide and 3rd in Asia. At 48° latitude the old Mercator map inflates area by about 2.3×, drawing it closer to 6,172,466 km², a difference of roughly 127%.
For scale, Kazakhstan is roughly the same size as Argentina (2,780,400 km²).
You could fit 3 of Pakistan inside Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan: key figures
| True area | 2,724,910 km² |
| World rank | 9th |
| Share of world land | 2.0% |
| Rank in Asia | 3rd / 52 |
| Old-map (Mercator) inflation | 2.3× |
| Apparent size on Mercator | 6,172,466 km² |
Largest countries in Asia (true area)
| Asia | |
|---|
| China | 9,596,960 km² |
| India | 3,287,263 km² |
| Kazakhstan (this country) | 2,724,910 km² |
| Saudi Arabia | 2,149,690 km² |
| Indonesia | 1,904,569 km² |
| Iran | 1,648,195 km² |