Ecuador is 1.04× the size of Guinea

Ecuador covers about 255,000 km² (98,500 mi²) and Guinea about 244,000 km² (94,300 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

255,000km²Ecuador
244,000km²Guinea

500 km

Ecuador
Guinea

What fits

Guinea is 96% of the size of Ecuador.
Ecuador is larger by 10,700 km² (4,140 mi²), which is 4.4% of the area of Guinea.
Measured in Belgiums: Ecuador is about 8.31, Guinea about 7.97.

How they differ

Ecuador is larger, but Guinea has the larger population: 17.5 million against 16.9 million, 1.03× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 72 in Guinea against 66 in Ecuador: Guinea is 1.08× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 7,620 km apart.
Together Ecuador and Guinea cover 499,000 km², close to the size of Spain (499,000 km², 0.0% bigger).
The gap between them, 10,700 km², is about the size of Kosovo (10,900 km²).
At Guinea's density, Ecuador would have 18.3 million people (it has 16.9 million). At Ecuador's density, Guinea would have 16.2 million (it has 17.5 million).
Guinea's centre is 11.9° of latitude, about 1,320 km, farther north than Ecuador's.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Ecuador	1.04×
More people	Guinea	1.03×
More crowded	Guinea	1.08×
Farther north	Guinea	11.9° of latitude

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Ecuador	Guinea
Belgium 30,700 km²	8.31×	7.97×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	1.05×	1.00×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.71×	0.68×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.68×	0.65×
France 548,000 km²	0.47×	0.45×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.08×	0.08×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.03×	0.03×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.03×	0.03×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.02×	0.01×

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

Side by side

	Ecuador	Guinea
Area, main territory	255,000 km²98,500 mi²	244,000 km²94,300 mi²
Population	16.9 millionWikidata, 2022	17.5 millionWikidata, 2025
Density	66 per km²	72 per km²
Official area	257,000 km²Wikidata	246,000 km²Wikidata
Capital	Quito	Conakry
Latitude range	5°S to 2°N	7°N to 13°N
Continent	South America	Africa

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2025, covering each whole country. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 257,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 255,000 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 246,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 244,000 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, public domain
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. Main territory: the largest landmass and every part within 1,000 km of it.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded. Comparisons use main-territory area.
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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