Greece is 1.06× the size of Java

Greece (country) covers about 131,000 km² (50,700 mi²) and Java (island) about 124,000 km² (47,800 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Java outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

131,000km²Greece
124,000km²Java

200 km

Greece
Java

What fits

Java is 94% of the size of Greece.
Greece is larger by 7,470 km² (2,890 mi²), which is 6.0% of the area of Java.
Measured in Belgiums: Greece is about 4.28, Java about 4.04.

How they differ

Their centres are about 10,300 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Greece at 39°N is drawn about 1.7× too large and Java at 7°S about 1.0×, so the map shows Greece as 1.73× the size of Java instead of 1.06×.
Together Greece and Java cover 255,000 km², close to the size of Ecuador (255,000 km², 0.1% smaller).
The gap between them, 7,470 km², is about the size of Palestine (6,070 km²).
Greece's centre is 46.3° of latitude, about 5,150 km, farther north than Java's.
Greece ranks 97th of 212 countries by area.
Java is an island and ranks 12th of the 81 islands on sizeversus by area.
Laid out flat, Greece stretches about 761 km north to south and 757 km east to west; Java about 319 km by 1,030 km.
Our measured 124,000 km² is 3.4% below Wikidata’s published figure of 128,000 km². Published areas of lakes and seas move with the water level and with what is counted, so a few percent is expected.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Greece	1.06×
Farther north	Greece	46.3° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Greece	1.7× against 1.0×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Greece	Java
Belgium 30,700 km²	4.28×	4.04×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.54×	0.51×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.37×	0.35×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.35×	0.33×
France 548,000 km²	0.24×	0.23×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.04×	0.04×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.02×	0.01×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×

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

Side by side

	Greece	Java
Is a	CountryEurope	Islandisland on sizeversus
Area, measured	131,000 km²50,700 mi²	124,000 km²47,800 mi²
Area, published	132,000 km²Wikidata	128,000 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	97th of 212countries	12th of 81islands
Latitude range	35°N to 42°N	9°S to 6°S
On the shore	–	1 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 Indonesia contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Java. That is what its geometry says, and it is not a statement about who owns the water or where any border runs in it.

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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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