Hainan Island is 1.02× the size of Moldova

Hainan Island (island) covers about 33,800 km² (13,000 mi²) and Moldova (country) about 33,200 km² (12,800 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Hainan Island outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

33,800km²Hainan Island
33,200km²Moldova

50 km

Hainan Island
Moldova

What fits

Moldova is 98% of the size of Hainan Island.
Hainan Island is larger by 556 km² (215 mi²), which is 1.7% of the area of Moldova.
Measured in Belgiums: Hainan Island is about 1.10, Moldova about 1.08.

How they differ

Their centres are about 7,810 km apart.
On a standard web map Moldova looks larger than Hainan Island: Hainan Island at 19°N is drawn about 1.1× too large and Moldova at 47°N about 2.2×, so the map shows Moldova as 1.90× the size of Hainan Island, when Hainan Island is 1.02× the size of Moldova.
Together Hainan Island and Moldova cover 67,000 km², close to the size of Sri Lanka (66,300 km², 1.0% smaller).
The gap between them, 556 km², is about the size of Isle of Man (575 km²).
Moldova's centre is 28.0° of latitude, about 3,110 km, farther north than Hainan Island's.
Hainan Island is an island and ranks 36th of the 81 islands on sizeversus by area.
Moldova ranks 138th of 212 countries by area.
Laid out flat, Hainan Island stretches about 214 km north to south and 250 km east to west; Moldova about 336 km by 264 km.
Wikidata’s published figure of 33,200 km² agrees with our measured 33,800 km², to within 2%.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Hainan Island	1.02×
Farther north	Moldova	28.0° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Moldova	2.2× against 1.1×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Hainan Island	Moldova
Belgium 30,700 km²	1.10×	1.08×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.14×	0.14×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.09×	0.09×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.09×	0.09×
France 548,000 km²	0.06×	0.06×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	1 in 251	1 in 255
United States 9,447,000 km²	1 in 280	1 in 285
Russia 16,980,000 km²	1 in 503	1 in 511

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

Side by side

	Hainan Island	Moldova
Is a	Islandisland on sizeversus	CountryEurope
Area, measured	33,800 km²13,000 mi²	33,200 km²12,800 mi²
Area, published	33,200 km²Wikidata	33,800 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	36th of 81islands	138th of 212countries
Latitude range	18°N to 20°N	45°N to 48°N
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 China contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Hainan Island. 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 Hainan Island

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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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