Fiji is 1.04× the size of Gulf of Riga

Fiji (country) covers about 18,900 km² (7,310 mi²) and the Gulf of Riga (gulf) about 18,200 km² (7,030 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Gulf of Riga outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

18,900km²Fiji
18,200km²Gulf of Riga

200 km

Fiji
Gulf of Riga

What fits

Gulf of Riga is 96% of the size of Fiji.
Fiji is larger by 732 km² (283 mi²), which is 4.0% of the area of Gulf of Riga.
Measured in Belgiums: Fiji is about 0.62, Gulf of Riga about 0.59.

How they differ

Their centres are about 15,100 km apart.
On a standard web map Gulf of Riga looks larger than Fiji: Fiji at 17°S is drawn about 1.1× too large and Gulf of Riga at 58°N about 3.5×, so the map shows Gulf of Riga as 3.10× the size of Fiji, when Fiji is 1.04× the size of Gulf of Riga.
Together Fiji and Gulf of Riga cover 37,100 km², close to the size of Netherlands (37,100 km², 0.1% smaller).
The gap between them, 732 km², is about the size of Dominica (730 km²).
Gulf of Riga's centre is 75.3° of latitude, about 8,380 km, farther north than Fiji's.
Fiji ranks 155th of 212 countries by area.
The Gulf of Riga is a gulf and ranks 37th of the 42 seas on sizeversus by area.
Laid out flat, Fiji stretches about 1,030 km north to south and 749 km east to west; the Gulf of Riga about 228 km by 166 km.
Wikidata’s published figure of 18,000 km² agrees with our measured 18,200 km², to within 2%.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Fiji	1.04×
Farther north	Gulf of Riga	75.3° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Gulf of Riga	3.5× against 1.1×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Fiji	Gulf of Riga
Belgium 30,700 km²	0.62×	0.59×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.08×	0.07×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.05×	0.05×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.05×	0.05×
France 548,000 km²	0.03×	0.03×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	1 in 448	1 in 466
United States 9,447,000 km²	1 in 499	1 in 519
Russia 16,980,000 km²	1 in 897	1 in 933

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

Side by side

	Fiji	Gulf of Riga
Is a	CountryOceania	Gulfsea on sizeversus
Area, measured	18,900 km²7,310 mi²	18,200 km²7,030 mi²
Area, published	18,300 km²Wikidata	18,000 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	155th of 212countries	37th of 42seas
Greatest depth	–	67 mWikidata
Latitude range	22°S to 12°S	57°N to 59°N
On the shore	–	2 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 Estonia and Latvia lie within 25 km of the outline of the Gulf of Riga. 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 Fiji

Similar in size to Gulf of Riga

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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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