State of Australia

Tasmania (Australia)

Tasmania (Australia) is a state of Australia. It covers about 68,100 km² (26,300 mi²), the 7th largest of the 8 states and territories in Natural Earth’s file for Australia, and about the same size as Ireland. About 540,000 people live there (Wikidata, 2020).

In area0.98×the size ofIreland69,400 km² In people0.97×as many people asCape Verde556,000

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Tasmania (Australia)

Facts

Area, measured	68,100 km²26,300 mi²
Official area	68,400 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure
Share of Australia	0.9%of the area of the 8 states and territories
Rank by area	7th of 8states and territories of Australia
Population	540,000Wikidata, 2020 · the only figure Wikidata has; most units carry 2024
Density	7.9 people per km²
Capital	Hobart
Latitude range	44°S to 40°S
Type	StateAU-TAS

What the numbers say about Tasmania (Australia)

Tasmania (Australia) covers 0.9% of the area of Australia and ranks 6th of 8 by population, against 7th by area.
It would take 113 states and territories the size of Tasmania (Australia) to cover Australia.
The largest, Western Australia, is 37.1× the size of Tasmania (Australia); the smallest, Australian Capital Territory, is 3.4% of it.
Closest in size within Australia: Victoria (228,000 km², 3.35×) and New South Wales (802,000 km², 11.8×).
Counted as a country, Tasmania (Australia) would be larger than 117 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 123rd by area, between Ireland (69,400 km²) and Sri Lanka (66,300 km²).
With 540,000 people it would rank 173rd of 238 by population.
Tasmania (Australia) has 7.9 people per km², about the density of Gabon, which has 7.8 per km².
That makes Tasmania (Australia) the 4th most densely populated of the 8 states and territories, 2.23× the average for Australia (3.6 per km²).
Wikidata holds no 2024 figure for Tasmania (Australia); the 2020 figure is the only one it has, so Tasmania (Australia) is not counted the same way as the 7 states and territories that carry 2024.
On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 42°S is drawn about 1.8× too large in area, so Tasmania (Australia) looks bigger there than it is.
Laid out flat, Tasmania (Australia) stretches about 449 km north to south and 395 km east to west.
Wikidata's official figure of 68,400 km² agrees with our measured area of 68,100 km², to within 2%.

About the same size as

About as many people as

Beside the regions of other countries

The closest region by area and by people in each of the other countries that have regional pages here, within a factor of 2. All 395 regions side by side.

ChinaAreaChongqing83% · 82,400 km²Peoplenone within 2×
United StatesAreaWest Virginia1.09× · 62,700 km² PeopleWyoming0.94× · 577,000 (2020)
IndiaAreaLadakh1.06× · 64,300 km² PeopleDadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu0.92× · 586,000 (2011)
GermanyAreaBavaria0.97× · 70,000 km² PeopleBremen78% · 693,000 (2022)
FranceAreaAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes0.96× · 70,900 km² PeopleGuadeloupe1.41× · 384,000 (2022)
ItalyAreanone within 2×PeopleBasilicata0.96× · 563,000 (2019)
SpainAreaCastilla–La Mancha86% · 79,400 km² PeopleCantabria0.91× · 592,000 (2024)
JapanAreaHokkaido (Japan)86% · 78,800 km² PeopleTottori0.98× · 550,000 (2021)
BrazilAreaParaíba1.21× · 56,500 km² PeopleRoraima85% · 637,000 (2022)
CanadaAreaNew Brunswick0.94× · 72,800 km² PeopleNewfoundland and Labrador1.06× · 511,000 (2021)
MexicoAreaVeracruz0.96× · 71,000 km² PeopleBaja California Sur85% · 637,000 (2010)
ThailandAreanone within 2×PeopleYala1.00× · 539,000 (2020)

Where Tasmania (Australia) sits in Australia

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Ranked within Australia

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Sources and method

Outline: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline, shown rounded. The region’s whole area is counted, every island included.
Official figures: Area, population and capital from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-12
Population: Wikidata, 2020. Australia’s units share the 2024 figures where Wikidata has them; the year is shown wherever the figure is.
Matching: Countries come from Natural Earth’s country file. Places whose status is contested and dependencies are never used as automatic matches. A region under 2,500 km² is matched against the small countries and island nations.
Data built: 2026-11-12

Full method