East Timor is 7.02× the size of Okinawa

East Timor (Asia) covers about 15,100 km² (5,820 mi²) and Okinawa (prefecture of Japan) about 2,150 km² (829 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

15,100km²East Timor
2,150km²Okinawa

200 km

East Timor
Okinawa

Okinawa: Part of this region's boundary is disputed with China and Taiwan. Size Versus draws Natural Earth's de facto outline, the boundary as it is held on the ground, and takes no position on it.

What fits

Okinawa fits inside East Timor about 7.02 times by area.
East Timor is larger by 12,900 km² (4,990 mi²), which is 602% of the area of Okinawa.
Measured in Belgiums: East Timor is about 0.49, Okinawa about 0.07.

How they differ

East Timor is larger, but Okinawa has the larger population: 1.5 million against 1.4 million, 1.04× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 680 in Okinawa against 93 in East Timor: Okinawa is 7.32× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 3,860 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: East Timor at 9°S is drawn about 1.0× too large and Okinawa at 26°N about 1.2×, so the map shows East Timor as 5.82× the size of Okinawa instead of 7.02×.
Together East Timor and Okinawa cover 17,200 km², close to the size of Eswatini (17,100 km², 0.7% smaller).
The gap between them, 12,900 km², is about the size of Bahamas (12,600 km²).
At Okinawa's density, East Timor would have 10.3 million people (it has 1.4 million). At East Timor's density, Okinawa would have 199,000 (it has 1.5 million).
Okinawa's centre is 34.7° of latitude, about 3,860 km, farther north than East Timor's.
East Timor ranks 160th of 246 countries and territories by area.
Okinawa is the 45th largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 0.6% of its area; it is the 8th most densely populated of them.
Okinawa lies about 35° of latitude (roughly 3,860 km) north of East Timor, on the other side of the equator.
Shared out evenly, each person in East Timor would have about 10,770 m² and each person in Okinawa about 1,470 m².
Laid side by side, East Timor and Okinawa would cover 17,200 km², about the same size as Eswatini.
Together they have 2.9 million people, about as many people as Lithuania.
Okinawa is drawn from 133 points: at a size under 2,500 km² the outline is a sketch, so the overlap shows the proportions rather than the exact shape.
Counted as a country, Okinawa would rank 181st by area and 155th by population.

Side by side

	East Timor	Okinawa
Is a	CountryAsia	PrefectureJapan
Area, measured	15,100 km²5,820 mi²	2,150 km²829 mi²
Official area	14,900 km²Wikidata	2,280 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	159th of 239worldwide	45th of 47in Japan
Population	1.4 millionWikidata, 2024	1.5 millionWikidata, 2021
Rank by population	155th of 237worldwide	25th of 47in Japan
Density	93 per km²	680 per km²
Capital	Dili	Naha
Latitude range	10°S to 8°S	24°N to 28°N

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

Wikidata's official figure of 14,900 km² agrees with our measured area of 15,100 km², to within 2%.
Our measured 2,150 km² is 5.8% below Wikidata's official figure of 2,280 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.

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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
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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