Castile and León is 2.85× the size of Moldova

Castile and León (autonomous community of Spain) covers about 94,800 km² (36,600 mi²) and Moldova (Europe) about 33,200 km² (12,800 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

94,800km²Castile and León
33,200km²Moldova

100 km

Castile and León
Moldova

What fits

Moldova fits inside Castile and León about 2.85 times by area.
Castile and León is larger by 61,600 km² (23,800 mi²), which is 185% of the area of Moldova.
Measured in Belgiums: Castile and León is about 3.09, Moldova about 1.08.

How they differ

Castile and León is larger, but Moldova has the larger population: 2.4 million against 2.4 million, 1.01× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 73 in Moldova against 25 in Castile and León: Moldova is 2.88× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 2,690 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Castile and León at 42°N is drawn about 1.8× too large and Moldova at 47°N about 2.2×, so the map shows Castile and León as 2.37× the size of Moldova instead of 2.85×.
Together Castile and León and Moldova cover 128,000 km², close to the size of Nicaragua (129,000 km², 0.5% bigger).
The gap between them, 61,600 km², is about the size of Latvia (64,600 km²).
At Moldova's density, Castile and León would have 6.9 million people (it has 2.4 million). At Castile and León's density, Moldova would have 837,000 (it has 2.4 million).
Moldova's centre is 5.4° of latitude, about 600 km, farther north than Castile and León's.
Castile and León is the largest of the 19 autonomous communities and cities of Spain and covers 19% of its area; it is the 18th most densely populated of them.
Moldova ranks 139th of 246 countries and territories by area.
Moldova lies about 5° of latitude (roughly 604 km) north of Castile and León.
Shared out evenly, each person in Castile and León would have about 39,690 m² and each person in Moldova about 13,780 m².
Laid side by side, Castile and León and Moldova would cover 128,000 km², about the same size as Nicaragua.
Together they have 4.8 million people, about as many people as Oman.
Counted as a country, Castile and León would rank 110th by area and 146th by population.

Side by side

	Castile and León	Moldova
Is a	Autonomous communitySpain	CountryEurope
Area, measured	94,800 km²36,600 mi²	33,200 km²12,800 mi²
Official area	94,200 km²Wikidata	33,800 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	1st of 19in Spain	138th of 239worldwide
Population	2.4 millionWikidata, 2024	2.4 millionWikidata, 2024
Rank by population	6th of 19in Spain	145th of 237worldwide
Density	25 per km²	73 per km²
Capital	–	Chișinău
Latitude range	40°N to 43°N	45°N to 48°N

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

Wikidata's official figure of 94,200 km² agrees with our measured area of 94,800 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 33,800 km² agrees with our measured area of 33,200 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 Castile and León 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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