Denmark is 1.01× the size of Southampton Island

Denmark (country) covers about 42,700 km² (16,500 mi²) and Southampton Island (island) about 42,300 km² (16,300 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Southampton Island outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

42,700km²Denmark
42,300km²Southampton Island

100 km

Denmark
Southampton Island

What fits

Southampton Island is 99% of the size of Denmark.
Denmark is larger by 430 km² (166 mi²), which is 1.0% of the area of Southampton Island.
Measured in Belgiums: Denmark is about 1.39, Southampton Island about 1.38.

How they differ

Their centres are about 4,810 km apart.
On a standard web map Southampton Island looks larger than Denmark: Denmark at 56°N is drawn about 3.2× too large and Southampton Island at 64°N about 5.3×, so the map shows Southampton Island as 1.66× the size of Denmark, when Denmark is 1.01× the size of Southampton Island.
Together Denmark and Southampton Island cover 85,000 km², close to the size of Austria (84,000 km², 1.1% smaller).
The gap between them, 430 km², is about the size of Seychelles (436 km²).
Southampton Island's centre is 8.4° of latitude, about 940 km, farther north than Denmark's.
Denmark ranks 133rd of 212 countries by area.
Southampton Island is an island and ranks 29th of the 81 islands on sizeversus by area.
Laid out flat, Denmark stretches about 351 km north to south and 447 km east to west; Southampton Island about 310 km by 341 km.
Our measured 42,300 km² is 2.5% above Wikidata’s published figure of 41,200 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	Denmark	1.01×
Farther north	Southampton Island	8.4° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Southampton Island	5.3× against 3.2×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Denmark	Southampton Island
Belgium 30,700 km²	1.39×	1.38×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.18×	0.17×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.12×	0.12×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.11×	0.11×
France 548,000 km²	0.08×	0.08×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.01×	1 in 200
United States 9,447,000 km²	1 in 221	1 in 224
Russia 16,980,000 km²	1 in 398	1 in 402

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

Side by side

	Denmark	Southampton Island
Is a	CountryEurope	Islandisland on sizeversus
Area, measured	42,700 km²16,500 mi²	42,300 km²16,300 mi²
Area, published	42,900 km²Wikidata	41,200 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	133rd of 212countries	29th of 81islands
Latitude range	55°N to 58°N	63°N to 66°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 Canada contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Southampton 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 Denmark

Similar in size to Southampton Island

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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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