Bali Sea is 1.02× the size of Denmark

The Bali Sea (sea) covers about 43,400 km² (16,800 mi²) and Denmark (country) about 42,700 km² (16,500 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Bali Sea outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

43,400km²Bali Sea
42,700km²Denmark

100 km

Bali Sea
Denmark

What fits

Denmark is 98% of the size of Bali Sea.
Bali Sea is larger by 708 km² (273 mi²), which is 1.7% of the area of Denmark.
Measured in Belgiums: Bali Sea is about 1.42, Denmark about 1.39.

How they differ

Their centres are about 11,700 km apart.
On a standard web map Denmark looks larger than Bali Sea: Bali Sea at 8°S is drawn about 1.0× too large and Denmark at 56°N about 3.2×, so the map shows Denmark as 3.08× the size of Bali Sea, when Bali Sea is 1.02× the size of Denmark.
Together Bali Sea and Denmark cover 86,100 km², close to the size of Azerbaijan (86,200 km², 0.2% bigger).
The gap between them, 708 km², is about the size of Bahrain (688 km²).
Denmark's centre is 63.8° of latitude, about 7,090 km, farther north than Bali Sea's.
The Bali Sea is a sea and ranks 33rd of the 42 seas on sizeversus by area.
Denmark ranks 133rd of 212 countries by area.
Laid out flat, the Bali Sea stretches about 238 km north to south and 314 km east to west; Denmark about 351 km by 447 km.
Our measured 43,400 km² is 3.5% below Wikidata’s published figure of 45,000 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	Bali Sea	1.02×
Farther north	Denmark	63.8° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Denmark	3.2× against 1.0×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Bali Sea	Denmark
Belgium 30,700 km²	1.42×	1.39×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.18×	0.18×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.12×	0.12×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.12×	0.11×
France 548,000 km²	0.08×	0.08×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
United States 9,447,000 km²	1 in 218	1 in 221
Russia 16,980,000 km²	1 in 391	1 in 398

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

Side by side

	Bali Sea	Denmark
Is a	Seasea on sizeversus	CountryEurope
Area, measured	43,400 km²16,800 mi²	42,700 km²16,500 mi²
Area, published	45,000 km²Wikidata	42,900 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	33rd of 42seas	133rd of 212countries
Greatest depth	1,590 mWikidata	–
Latitude range	9°S to 7°S	55°N to 58°N
On the shore	1 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 Indonesia lie within 25 km of the outline of the Bali Sea. 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 Bali Sea

Similar in size to Denmark

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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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