Basque Country is 1.24× the size of Brunei

Basque Country (autonomous community of Spain) covers about 7,060 km² (2,730 mi²) and Brunei (Asia) about 5,720 km² (2,210 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

7,060km²Basque Country
5,720km²Brunei

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Basque Country
Brunei

What fits

Brunei is 81% of the size of Basque Country.
Basque Country is larger by 1,340 km² (519 mi²), which is 24% of the area of Brunei.
Measured in Belgiums: Basque Country is about 0.23, Brunei about 0.19.

How they differ

Basque Country also has the larger population: 2.2 million against 459,000, 4.86× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 316 in Basque Country against 80 in Brunei: Basque Country is 3.93× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 11,800 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Basque Country at 43°N is drawn about 1.9× too large and Brunei at 5°N about 1.0×, so the map shows Basque Country as 2.30× the size of Brunei instead of 1.24×.
Together Basque Country and Brunei cover 12,800 km², close to the size of Bahamas (12,600 km², 1.4% smaller).
The gap between them, 1,340 km², is about the size of Comoros (1,670 km²).
At Brunei's density, Basque Country would have 567,000 people (it has 2.2 million). At Basque Country's density, Brunei would have 1.8 million (it has 459,000).
Basque Country's centre is 38.5° of latitude, about 4,290 km, farther north than Brunei's.
Basque Country is the 14th largest of the 19 autonomous communities and cities of Spain and covers 1.4% of its area; it is the 4th most densely populated of them.
Brunei ranks 173rd of 246 countries and territories by area.
Basque Country lies about 39° of latitude (roughly 4,290 km) north of Brunei.
Shared out evenly, each person in Basque Country would have about 3,170 m² and each person in Brunei about 12,460 m².
Laid side by side, Basque Country and Brunei would cover 12,800 km², about the same size as the Bahamas.
Together they have 2.7 million people, about as many people as Jamaica.
Counted as a country, Basque Country would rank 170th by area and 146th by population.

Side by side

	Basque Country	Brunei
Is a	Autonomous communitySpain	CountryAsia
Area, measured	7,060 km²2,730 mi²	5,720 km²2,210 mi²
Official area	7,230 km²Wikidata	5,770 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	14th of 19in Spain	172nd of 239worldwide
Population	2.2 millionWikidata, 2024	459,000Wikidata, 2023
Rank by population	7th of 19in Spain	174th of 237worldwide
Density	316 per km²	80 per km²
Capital	Vitoria-Gasteiz	Bandar Seri Begawan
Latitude range	42°N to 43°N	4°N to 5°N

Population: Wikidata 2024 and Wikidata 2023. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Our measured 7,060 km² is 2.4% below Wikidata's official figure of 7,230 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.
Wikidata's official figure of 5,770 km² agrees with our measured area of 5,720 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain for the region; Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, public domain. The outline of Basque Country is the provinces Natural Earth draws there, joined along their shared borders.
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. A region is drawn whole, every island included; a country is its main territory.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded.
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: 2026-11-12

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