Austria is 1.03× the size of Ireland (island)

Austria (country) covers about 84,000 km² (32,400 mi²) and Ireland (island) (island) about 81,600 km² (31,500 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Ireland (island) outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

84,000km²Austria
81,600km²Ireland (island)

100 km

Austria
Ireland (island)

What fits

Ireland (island) is 97% of the size of Austria.
Austria is larger by 2,370 km² (915 mi²), which is 2.9% of the area of Ireland (island).
Measured in Belgiums: Austria is about 2.74, Ireland (island) about 2.66.

How they differ

Their centres are about 1,680 km apart.
On a standard web map Ireland (island) looks larger than Austria: Austria at 48°N is drawn about 2.2× too large and Ireland (island) at 53°N about 2.8×, so the map shows Ireland (island) as 1.24× the size of Austria, when Austria is 1.03× the size of Ireland (island).
Together Austria and Ireland (island) cover 166,000 km², close to the size of Somaliland (167,000 km², 1.1% bigger).
The gap between them, 2,370 km², is about the size of Luxembourg (2,610 km²).
Ireland (island)'s centre is 5.8° of latitude, about 650 km, farther north than Austria's.
Austria ranks 115th of 212 countries by area.
Ireland (island) is an island and ranks 19th of the 81 islands on sizeversus by area.
Laid out flat, Austria stretches about 293 km north to south and 572 km east to west; Ireland (island) about 431 km by 327 km.
Our measured 81,600 km² is 3.3% below Wikidata’s published figure of 84,400 km². Published areas of lakes and seas move with the water level and with what is counted, so a few percent is expected.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Austria	1.03×
Farther north	Ireland (island)	5.8° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Ireland (island)	2.8× against 2.2×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Austria	Ireland (island)
Belgium 30,700 km²	2.74×	2.66×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.34×	0.33×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.23×	0.23×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.22×	0.22×
France 548,000 km²	0.15×	0.15×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.03×	0.03×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	1 in 202	1 in 208

Each figure is the place's area divided by the yardstick's.

Side by side

	Austria	Ireland (island)
Is a	CountryEurope	Islandisland on sizeversus
Area, measured	84,000 km²32,400 mi²	81,600 km²31,500 mi²
Area, published	83,900 km²Wikidata	84,400 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	115th of 212countries	19th of 81islands
Latitude range	46°N to 49°N	51°N to 55°N
On the shore	–	2 on the shore

Published figures: Wikidata (CC0). A lake or a sea has no legal boundary: the measured area is that of Natural Earth’s outline, and it is shown beside the published one.

Natural Earth’s outlines of Ireland and the United Kingdom contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Ireland (island). That is what its geometry says, and it is not a statement about who owns the water or where any border runs in it.

Similar in size to Austria

Similar in size to Ireland (island)

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Sources and method

Outlines: Lakes and seas: Natural Earth 1:10m physical vectors (public domain), kept only where the measured area is within 10% of the published one. Countries and regions: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 and Admin 1, public domain.
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. A lake or a sea has no legal boundary of its own; the outline is a cartographic one.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded. The published figure comes from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-11, and is shown beside the measured one.
Drawing: Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and the two can be laid over each other.
Data built: 2026-11-11

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