Chile is 1.02× the size of Borneo

Chile (country) covers about 736,000 km² (284,000 mi²) and Borneo (island) about 725,000 km² (280,000 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Borneo outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

736,000km²Chile
725,000km²Borneo

500 km

Chile
Borneo

What fits

Borneo is 98% of the size of Chile.
Chile is larger by 11,600 km² (4,470 mi²), which is 1.6% of the area of Borneo.
Measured in Belgiums: Chile is about 24.0, Borneo about 23.6.

How they differ

Their centres are about 16,100 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Chile at 36°S is drawn about 1.5× too large and Borneo at 1°N about 1.0×, so the map shows Chile as 1.56× the size of Borneo instead of 1.02×.
Together Chile and Borneo cover 1,461,000 km², close to the size of Mongolia (1,565,000 km², 7.1% bigger).
The gap between them, 11,600 km², is about the size of Falkland Islands (11,600 km²).
Borneo's centre is 36.9° of latitude, about 4,110 km, farther north than Chile's.
Chile ranks 39th of 212 countries by area.
Borneo is an island and ranks 3rd of the 81 islands on sizeversus by area.
Laid out flat, Chile stretches about 4,230 km north to south and 772 km east to west; Borneo about 1,240 km by 1,150 km.
Our measured 725,000 km² is 3.1% below Wikidata’s published figure of 748,000 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	Chile	1.02×
Farther north	Borneo	36.9° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Chile	1.5× against 1.0×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Chile	Borneo
Belgium 30,700 km²	24.0×	23.6×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	3.02×	2.97×
Germany 358,000 km²	2.06×	2.03×
Japan 374,000 km²	1.97×	1.94×
France 548,000 km²	1.34×	1.32×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.23×	0.23×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.09×	0.09×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.08×	0.08×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.04×	0.04×

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

Side by side

	Chile	Borneo
Is a	CountrySouth America	Islandisland on sizeversus
Area, measured	736,000 km²284,000 mi²	725,000 km²280,000 mi²
Area, published	756,000 km²Wikidata	748,000 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	39th of 212countries	3rd of 81islands
Latitude range	56°S to 18°S	4°S to 7°N
On the shore	–	2 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 and Malaysia contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Borneo. 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 Chile

Similar in size to Borneo

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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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