Italy is 9.82× the size of Belgium

Italy covers about 301,000 km² (116,000 mi²) and Belgium about 30,700 km² (11,800 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

301,000km²Italy
30,700km²Belgium

200 km

Italy
Belgium

What fits

Belgium fits inside Italy about 9.82 times by area.
Italy is larger by 271,000 km² (104,000 mi²), which is 882% of the area of Belgium.
Measured in Switzerlands: Italy is about 7.27, Belgium about 0.74.

How they differ

Italy also has the larger population: 58.9 million against 11.8 million, 4.98× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 386 in Belgium against 195 in Italy: Belgium is 1.97× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 1,050 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Italy at 43°N is drawn about 1.9× too large and Belgium at 51°N about 2.5×, so the map shows Italy as 7.31× the size of Belgium instead of 9.82×.
Together Italy and Belgium cover 332,000 km², close to the size of Finland (333,000 km², 0.4% bigger).
The gap between them, 271,000 km², is about the size of New Zealand (268,000 km²).
At Belgium's density, Italy would have 116.1 million people (it has 58.9 million). At Italy's density, Belgium would have 6.0 million (it has 11.8 million).
Belgium's centre is 7.9° of latitude, about 880 km, farther north than Italy's.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Italy	9.82×
More people	Italy	4.98×
More crowded	Belgium	1.97×
Farther north	Belgium	7.9° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Belgium	2.5× against 1.9×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Italy	Belgium
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	1.24×	0.13×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.84×	0.09×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.81×	0.08×
France 548,000 km²	0.55×	0.06×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.10×	0.01×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.04×	1 in 276
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.03×	1 in 308
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.02×	1 in 554

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

Side by side

	Italy	Belgium
Area, main territory	301,000 km²116,000 mi²	30,700 km²11,800 mi²
Population	58.9 millionWikidata, 2023	11.8 millionWikidata, 2025
Density	195 per km²	386 per km²
Official area	302,000 km²Wikidata	30,700 km²Wikidata
Capital	Rome	Brussels
Latitude range	35°N to 47°N	49°N to 51°N
Continent	Europe	Europe

Population: Wikidata 2023 and Wikidata 2025, 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 30,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 30,700 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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