Belgium is 14.0× the size of Tokyo

What fits

• Tokyo fits inside Belgium about 14.0 times by area.
• Belgium is larger by 28,500 km² (11,000 mi²), which is 1,305% of the area of Tokyo.
• Measured in Switzerlands: Belgium is about 0.74, Tokyo about 0.05.

How they differ

• Belgium is larger, but Tokyo has the larger population: 14.3 million against 11.8 million, 1.21× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 6,534 in Tokyo against 386 in Belgium: Tokyo is 16.9× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 9,520 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Belgium at 51°N is drawn about 2.5× too large and Tokyo at 35°N about 1.5×, so the map shows Belgium as 23.4× the size of Tokyo instead of 14.0×.
• Together Belgium and Tokyo cover 32,900 km², close to the size of Guinea-Bissau (32,800 km², 0.1% smaller).
• The gap between them, 28,500 km², is about the size of Albania (28,300 km²).
• At Tokyo's density, Belgium would have 200.4 million people (it has 11.8 million). At Belgium's density, Tokyo would have 842,000 (it has 14.3 million).
• Belgium's centre is 15.6° of latitude, about 1,740 km, farther north than Tokyo's.
• Belgium ranks 141st of 246 countries and territories by area.
• Tokyo is the 44th largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 0.6% of its area; it is the most densely populated of them.
• Belgium lies about 16° of latitude (roughly 1,740 km) north of Tokyo.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Belgium would have about 2,590 m² and each person in Tokyo about 150 m².
• Laid side by side, Belgium and Tokyo would cover 32,900 km², about the same size as Guinea-Bissau.
• Together they have 26.1 million people, about as many people as North Korea.
• Tokyo is drawn from 173 points: at a size under 2,500 km² the outline is a sketch, so the overlap shows the proportions rather than the exact shape.
• Counted as a country, Tokyo would rank 181st by area and 76th by population.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2025 and Wikidata 2022. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 30,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 30,700 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 2,190 km² agrees with our measured area of 2,180 km², to within 2%.

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