Canary Islands is 1.30× the size of Prince Edward Island

Canary Islands (autonomous community of Spain) covers about 7,440 km² (2,870 mi²) and Prince Edward Island (province of Canada) about 5,730 km² (2,210 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

7,440km²Canary Islands
5,730km²Prince Edward Island

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Canary Islands
Prince Edward Island

What fits

Prince Edward Island is 77% of the size of Canary Islands.
Canary Islands is larger by 1,700 km² (657 mi²), which is 30% of the area of Prince Edward Island.
Measured in Belgiums: Canary Islands is about 0.24, Prince Edward Island about 0.19.

How they differ

Canary Islands also has the larger population: 2.2 million against 154,000, 14.4× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 300 in Canary Islands against 27 in Prince Edward Island: Canary Islands is 11.1× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 4,570 km apart.
On a standard web map Prince Edward Island looks larger than Canary Islands: Canary Islands at 28°N is drawn about 1.3× too large and Prince Edward Island at 46°N about 2.1×, so the map shows Prince Edward Island as 1.26× the size of Canary Islands, when Canary Islands is 1.30× the size of Prince Edward Island.
Together Canary Islands and Prince Edward Island cover 13,200 km², close to the size of Montenegro (13,700 km², 4.2% bigger).
The gap between them, 1,700 km², is about the size of Comoros (1,670 km²).
At Prince Edward Island's density, Canary Islands would have 200,000 people (it has 2.2 million). At Canary Islands's density, Prince Edward Island would have 1.7 million (it has 154,000).
Prince Edward Island's centre is 18.1° of latitude, about 2,010 km, farther north than Canary Islands's.
Canary Islands is the 13th largest of the 19 autonomous communities and cities of Spain and covers 1.5% of its area; it is the 5th most densely populated of them.
Prince Edward Island is the 13th largest of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and covers less than 0.1% of its area; it is the most densely populated of them.
Prince Edward Island lies about 18° of latitude (roughly 2,010 km) north of Canary Islands.
Shared out evenly, each person in Canary Islands would have about 3,340 m² and each person in Prince Edward Island about 37,150 m².
Laid side by side, Canary Islands and Prince Edward Island would cover 13,200 km², 96% of the size of Montenegro.
Together they have 2.4 million people, about as many people as Moldova.

Side by side

	Canary Islands	Prince Edward Island
Is a	Autonomous communitySpain	ProvinceCanada
Area, measured	7,440 km²2,870 mi²	5,730 km²2,210 mi²
Official area	7,450 km²Wikidata	5,620 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	13th of 19in Spain	13th of 13in Canada
Population	2.2 millionWikidata, 2024	154,000Wikidata, 2021
Rank by population	8th of 19in Spain	10th of 13in Canada
Density	300 per km²	27 per km²
Capital	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Santa Cruz de Tenerife	Charlottetown
Latitude range	28°N to 29°N	46°N to 47°N

Population: Wikidata 2024 and Wikidata 2021. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 7,450 km² agrees with our measured area of 7,440 km², to within 2%.
Our measured 5,730 km² is 2.0% above Wikidata's official figure of 5,620 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain. The outline of Canary Islands 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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