Italy is 13.5× the size of Belize

Italy covers about 301,000 km² (116,000 mi²) and Belize about 22,300 km² (8,610 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

301,000km²Italy
22,300km²Belize

200 km

Italy
Belize

What fits

Belize fits inside Italy about 13.5 times by area.
Italy is larger by 279,000 km² (108,000 mi²), which is 1,251% of the area of Belize.
Measured in Belgiums: Italy is about 9.82, Belize about 0.73.

How they differ

Italy also has the larger population: 58.9 million against 411,000, 143× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 195 in Italy against 18 in Belize: Italy is 10.6× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 9,570 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Italy at 43°N is drawn about 1.9× too large and Belize at 17°N about 1.1×, so the map shows Italy as 22.8× the size of Belize instead of 13.5×.
Together Italy and Belize cover 323,000 km², close to the size of Ivory Coast (321,000 km², 0.9% smaller).
The gap between them, 279,000 km², is about the size of Burkina Faso (273,000 km²).
At Belize's density, Italy would have 5.6 million people (it has 58.9 million). At Italy's density, Belize would have 4.4 million (it has 411,000).
Italy's centre is 25.5° of latitude, about 2,840 km, farther north than Belize's.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Italy	13.5×
More people	Italy	143×
More crowded	Italy	10.6×
Farther north	Italy	25.5° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Italy	1.9× against 1.1×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Italy	Belize
Belgium 30,700 km²	9.82×	0.73×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	1.24×	0.09×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.84×	0.06×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.81×	0.06×
France 548,000 km²	0.55×	0.04×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.10×	0.01×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.04×	1 in 380
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.03×	1 in 424
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.02×	1 in 761

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

Side by side

	Italy	Belize
Area, main territory	301,000 km²116,000 mi²	22,300 km²8,610 mi²
Population	58.9 millionWikidata, 2023	411,000Wikidata, 2023
Density	195 per km²	18 per km²
Official area	302,000 km²Wikidata	23,000 km²Wikidata
Capital	Rome	Belmopan
Latitude range	35°N to 47°N	16°N to 18°N
Continent	Europe	North America

Population: Wikidata 2023, 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%.
Our measured 22,300 km² is 2.9% below Wikidata's official figure of 23,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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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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