Equatorial Guinea is 1.05× the size of North Macedonia

Equatorial Guinea covers about 26,700 km² (10,300 mi²) and North Macedonia about 25,400 km² (9,800 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

26,700km²Equatorial Guinea
25,400km²North Macedonia

200 km

Equatorial Guinea
North Macedonia

What fits

North Macedonia is 95% of the size of Equatorial Guinea.
Equatorial Guinea is larger by 1,290 km² (497 mi²), which is 5.1% of the area of North Macedonia.
Measured in Belgiums: Equatorial Guinea is about 0.87, North Macedonia about 0.83.

How they differ

Equatorial Guinea also has the larger population: 1.8 million against 1.8 million, 1.01× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 72 in North Macedonia against 69 in Equatorial Guinea: North Macedonia is 1.04× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 4,580 km apart.
On a standard web map North Macedonia looks larger than Equatorial Guinea: Equatorial Guinea at 2°N is drawn about 1.0× too large and North Macedonia at 42°N about 1.8×, so the map shows North Macedonia as 1.70× the size of Equatorial Guinea, when Equatorial Guinea is 1.05× the size of North Macedonia.
Together Equatorial Guinea and North Macedonia cover 52,100 km², close to the size of Bosnia and Herzegovina (51,800 km², 0.4% smaller).
The gap between them, 1,290 km², is about the size of São Tomé and Príncipe (1,040 km²).
At North Macedonia's density, Equatorial Guinea would have 1.9 million people (it has 1.8 million). At Equatorial Guinea's density, North Macedonia would have 1.8 million (it has 1.8 million).
North Macedonia's centre is 39.9° of latitude, about 4,440 km, farther north than Equatorial Guinea's.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Equatorial Guinea	1.05×
More people	Equatorial Guinea	1.01×
More crowded	North Macedonia	1.04×
Farther north	North Macedonia	39.9° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	North Macedonia	1.8× against 1.0×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Equatorial Guinea	North Macedonia
Belgium 30,700 km²	0.87×	0.83×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.11×	0.10×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.07×	0.07×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.07×	0.07×
France 548,000 km²	0.05×	0.05×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	1 in 318	1 in 334
United States 9,447,000 km²	1 in 354	1 in 372
Russia 16,980,000 km²	1 in 637	1 in 669

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

Side by side

	Equatorial Guinea	North Macedonia
Area, main territory	26,700 km²10,300 mi²	25,400 km²9,800 mi²
Population	1.8 millionWikidata, 2023	1.8 millionWikidata, 2021
Density	69 per km²	72 per km²
Official area	28,100 km²Wikidata	25,700 km²Wikidata
Capital	Ciudad de la Paz	Skopje
Latitude range	1°S to 4°N	41°N to 42°N
Continent	Africa	Europe

Population: Wikidata 2023 and Wikidata 2021, covering each whole country. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Our measured 26,700 km² is 4.9% below Wikidata's official figure of 28,100 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.
Wikidata's official figure of 25,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 25,400 km², to within 2%.

Similar in size to Equatorial Guinea

Similar in size to North Macedonia

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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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