How big is (Breath of the Wild's iteration of) Hyrule?

Question

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has a huge world. I want to impress people by comparing Hyrule's size to that of a real-world location. Has anyone estimated the size of Hyrule?

Answer 1

The BOTW map is ~60² km or ~37² miles.

This gif/video makes a size comparison between other LoZ maps (and even Skyrim).

Again, this isn't exact, but using measurements in the game (even using Link's height of ~1.7m/5'7"*) we can approximate.

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^{* Again, this is an approximation - Source}