Italy is 3.59× the size of Austria

Italy covers about 301,000 km² (116,000 mi²) and Austria about 84,000 km² (32,400 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

301,000km²Italy
84,000km²Austria

200 km

Italy
Austria

What fits

Austria fits inside Italy about 3.59 times by area.
Italy is larger by 217,000 km² (83,900 mi²), which is 259% of the area of Austria.
Measured in Belgiums: Italy is about 9.82, Austria about 2.74.

How they differ

Italy also has the larger population: 58.9 million against 9.0 million, 6.55× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 195 in Italy against 107 in Austria: Italy is 1.83× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 564 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Italy at 43°N is drawn about 1.9× too large and Austria at 48°N about 2.2×, so the map shows Italy as 3.02× the size of Austria instead of 3.59×.
Together Italy and Austria cover 385,000 km², close to the size of Norway (382,000 km², 0.8% smaller).
The gap between them, 217,000 km², is about the size of Guyana (211,000 km²).
At Austria's density, Italy would have 32.2 million people (it has 58.9 million). At Italy's density, Austria would have 16.4 million (it has 9.0 million).
Austria's centre is 4.9° of latitude, about 540 km, farther north than Italy's.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Italy	3.59×
More people	Italy	6.55×
More crowded	Italy	1.83×
Farther north	Austria	4.9° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Austria	2.2× against 1.9×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Italy	Austria
Belgium 30,700 km²	9.82×	2.74×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	1.24×	0.34×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.84×	0.23×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.81×	0.22×
France 548,000 km²	0.55×	0.15×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.10×	0.03×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.04×	0.01×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.03×	0.01×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.02×	1 in 202

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

Side by side

	Italy	Austria
Area, main territory	301,000 km²116,000 mi²	84,000 km²32,400 mi²
Population	58.9 millionWikidata, 2023	9.0 millionWikidata, 2022
Density	195 per km²	107 per km²
Official area	302,000 km²Wikidata	83,900 km²Wikidata
Capital	Rome	Vienna
Latitude range	35°N to 47°N	46°N to 49°N
Continent	Europe	Europe

Population: Wikidata 2023 and Wikidata 2022, covering each whole country. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 302,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 301,000 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 83,900 km² agrees with our measured area of 84,000 km², to within 2%.

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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

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