Fiji and New Caledonia are almost exactly the same size

Fiji covers about 18,900 km² (7,310 mi²) and New Caledonia about 18,800 km² (7,270 mi²). Their outlines are laid over each other below at one scale.

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What fits

New Caledonia is 100% of the size of Fiji.
The measured areas differ by 89.1 km², less than half a percent: closer than the measurement itself is certain.
Measured in Belgiums: Fiji is about 0.62, New Caledonia about 0.61.

Fiji also has the larger population: 926,000 against 279,000, 3.33× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 49 in Fiji against 15 in New Caledonia: Fiji is 3.31× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 1,410 km apart.
On a standard web map New Caledonia looks larger than Fiji: Fiji at 17°S is drawn about 1.1× too large and New Caledonia at 21°S about 1.2×, so the map shows New Caledonia as 1.04× the size of Fiji, when Fiji is 1.00× the size of New Caledonia.
Together Fiji and New Caledonia cover 37,800 km², close to the size of Netherlands (37,100 km², 1.8% smaller).
At New Caledonia's density, Fiji would have 280,000 people (it has 926,000). At Fiji's density, New Caledonia would have 922,000 (it has 279,000).
Fiji's centre is 3.9° of latitude, about 430 km, farther north than New Caledonia's.

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

Population: Wikidata 2018 and Wikidata 2017, covering each whole country. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Our measured 18,900 km² is 3.6% above Wikidata's official figure of 18,300 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.
Wikidata's official figure of 18,600 km² agrees with our measured area of 18,800 km², to within 2%.

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