Ireland is 1.10× the size of Tasmania

Ireland (country) covers about 69,400 km² (26,800 mi²) and Tasmania (island) about 63,200 km² (24,400 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Tasmania outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

69,400km²Ireland
63,200km²Tasmania

100 km

Ireland
Tasmania

What fits

Tasmania is 91% of the size of Ireland.
Ireland is larger by 6,230 km² (2,400 mi²), which is 9.8% of the area of Tasmania.
Measured in Belgiums: Ireland is about 2.26, Tasmania about 2.06.

How they differ

Their centres are about 17,800 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Ireland at 53°N is drawn about 2.8× too large and Tasmania at 42°S about 1.8×, so the map shows Ireland as 1.69× the size of Tasmania instead of 1.10×.
Together Ireland and Tasmania cover 133,000 km², close to the size of Greece (131,000 km², 1.0% smaller).
The gap between them, 6,230 km², is about the size of Palestine (6,070 km²).
Ireland's centre is 95.2° of latitude, about 10,580 km, farther north than Tasmania's.
Ireland ranks 122nd of 212 countries by area.
Tasmania is an island and ranks 25th of the 81 islands on sizeversus by area.
Laid out flat, Ireland stretches about 437 km north to south and 303 km east to west; Tasmania about 325 km by 308 km.
Our measured 63,200 km² is 2.8% below Wikidata’s published figure of 65,000 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	Ireland	1.10×
Farther north	Ireland	95.2° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Ireland	2.8× against 1.8×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Ireland	Tasmania
Belgium 30,700 km²	2.26×	2.06×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.28×	0.26×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.19×	0.18×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.19×	0.17×
France 548,000 km²	0.13×	0.12×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.02×	0.02×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	1 in 245	1 in 269

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

Side by side

	Ireland	Tasmania
Is a	CountryEurope	Islandisland on sizeversus
Area, measured	69,400 km²26,800 mi²	63,200 km²24,400 mi²
Area, published	69,800 km²Wikidata	65,000 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	122nd of 212countries	25th of 81islands
Latitude range	51°N to 55°N	44°S to 41°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 Australia contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Tasmania. 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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