Ethiopia is 1.04× the size of Bolivia

Ethiopia covers about 1,127,000 km² (435,000 mi²) and Bolivia about 1,087,000 km² (420,000 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

1,127,000km²Ethiopia
1,087,000km²Bolivia

500 km

Ethiopia
Bolivia

What fits

Bolivia is 96% of the size of Ethiopia.
Ethiopia is larger by 40,600 km² (15,700 mi²), which is 3.7% of the area of Bolivia.
Measured in Belgiums: Ethiopia is about 36.8, Bolivia about 35.4.

How they differ

Ethiopia also has the larger population: 128.7 million against 12.2 million, 10.5× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 114 in Ethiopia against 11 in Bolivia: Ethiopia is 10.1× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 11,800 km apart.
On a standard web map Bolivia looks larger than Ethiopia: Ethiopia at 9°N is drawn about 1.0× too large and Bolivia at 17°S about 1.1×, so the map shows Bolivia as 1.03× the size of Ethiopia, when Ethiopia is 1.04× the size of Bolivia.
Together Ethiopia and Bolivia cover 2,214,000 km², close to the size of Greenland (2,154,000 km², 2.7% smaller).
The gap between them, 40,600 km², is about the size of Bhutan (40,400 km²).
At Bolivia's density, Ethiopia would have 12.7 million people (it has 128.7 million). At Ethiopia's density, Bolivia would have 124.1 million (it has 12.2 million).
Ethiopia's centre is 25.3° of latitude, about 2,810 km, farther north than Bolivia's.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Ethiopia	1.04×
More people	Ethiopia	10.5×
More crowded	Ethiopia	10.1×
Farther north	Ethiopia	25.3° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Bolivia	1.1× against 1.0×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Ethiopia	Bolivia
Belgium 30,700 km²	36.8×	35.4×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	4.62×	4.46×
Germany 358,000 km²	3.15×	3.04×
Japan 374,000 km²	3.02×	2.91×
France 548,000 km²	2.06×	1.98×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.36×	0.34×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.13×	0.13×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.12×	0.12×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.07×	0.06×

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

Side by side

	Ethiopia	Bolivia
Area, main territory	1,127,000 km²435,000 mi²	1,087,000 km²420,000 mi²
Population	128.7 millionWikidata, 2023	12.2 millionWikidata, 2023
Density	114 per km²	11 per km²
Official area	1,104,000 km²Wikidata	1,099,000 km²Wikidata
Capital	Addis Ababa	La Paz; Sucre
Latitude range	3°N to 15°N	23°S to 10°S
Continent	Africa	South America

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

Our measured 1,127,000 km² is 2.1% above Wikidata's official figure of 1,104,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.
Wikidata's official figure of 1,099,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,087,000 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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