Cuba (island) is 1.01× the size of Iceland

Cuba (island) (island) covers about 103,000 km² (39,900 mi²) and Iceland (country) about 102,000 km² (39,500 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Cuba (island) outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

103,000km²Cuba (island)
102,000km²Iceland

200 km

Cuba (island)
Iceland

What fits

Iceland is 99% of the size of Cuba (island).
Cuba (island) is larger by 863 km² (333 mi²), which is 0.8% of the area of Iceland.
Measured in Belgiums: Cuba (island) is about 3.37, Iceland about 3.34.

How they differ

Their centres are about 6,460 km apart.
On a standard web map Iceland looks larger than Cuba (island): Cuba (island) at 22°N is drawn about 1.2× too large and Iceland at 65°N about 5.6×, so the map shows Iceland as 4.80× the size of Cuba (island), when Cuba (island) is 1.01× the size of Iceland.
Together Cuba (island) and Iceland cover 206,000 km², close to the size of Belarus (207,000 km², 0.9% bigger).
Iceland's centre is 43.4° of latitude, about 4,820 km, farther north than Cuba (island)'s.
Cuba (island) is an island and ranks 15th of the 81 islands on sizeversus by area.
Iceland ranks 107th of 212 countries by area.
Laid out flat, Cuba (island) stretches about 372 km north to south and 1,110 km east to west; Iceland about 351 km by 512 km.
Our measured 103,000 km² is 2.4% below Wikidata’s published figure of 106,000 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	Cuba (island)	1.01×
Farther north	Iceland	43.4° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Iceland	5.6× against 1.2×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Cuba (island)	Iceland
Belgium 30,700 km²	3.37×	3.34×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.42×	0.42×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.29×	0.29×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.28×	0.27×
France 548,000 km²	0.19×	0.19×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.03×	0.03×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×

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

Side by side

	Cuba (island)	Iceland
Is a	Islandisland on sizeversus	CountryEurope
Area, measured	103,000 km²39,900 mi²	102,000 km²39,500 mi²
Area, published	106,000 km²Wikidata	103,000 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	15th of 81islands	107th of 212countries
Latitude range	20°N to 23°N	63°N to 67°N
On the shore	1 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 Cuba contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Cuba (island). 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 Cuba (island)

Similar in size to Iceland

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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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