Georgia and Ireland are almost exactly the same size

Georgia covers about 69,600 km² (26,900 mi²) and Ireland about 69,400 km² (26,800 mi²). Their outlines are laid over each other below at one scale.

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What fits

Ireland is 100% of the size of Georgia.
The measured areas differ by 126 km², less than half a percent: closer than the measurement itself is certain.
Measured in Belgiums: Georgia is about 2.27, Ireland about 2.26.

Georgia is larger, but Ireland has the larger population: 5.1 million against 3.9 million, 1.31× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 74 in Ireland against 56 in Georgia: Ireland is 1.31× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 3,960 km apart.
On a standard web map Ireland looks larger than Georgia: Georgia at 42°N is drawn about 1.8× too large and Ireland at 53°N about 2.8×, so the map shows Ireland as 1.53× the size of Georgia, when Georgia is 1.00× the size of Ireland.
Together Georgia and Ireland cover 139,000 km², close to the size of Bangladesh (137,000 km², 1.5% smaller).
At Ireland's density, Georgia would have 5.2 million people (it has 3.9 million). At Georgia's density, Ireland would have 3.9 million (it has 5.1 million).
Ireland's centre is 11.0° of latitude, about 1,220 km, farther north than Georgia's.

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

Population: Wikidata 2024 and Wikidata 2022, covering each whole country. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 69,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 69,600 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 69,800 km² agrees with our measured area of 69,400 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