Italy is 5.47× the size of Croatia

Italy covers about 301,000 km² (116,000 mi²) and Croatia about 55,000 km² (21,200 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

301,000km²Italy
55,000km²Croatia

200 km

Italy
Croatia

What fits

Croatia fits inside Italy about 5.47 times by area.
Italy is larger by 246,000 km² (95,000 mi²), which is 447% of the area of Croatia.
Measured in Belgiums: Italy is about 9.82, Croatia about 1.79.

How they differ

Italy also has the larger population: 58.9 million against 3.9 million, 15.2× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 195 in Italy against 70 in Croatia: Italy is 2.78× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 426 km apart.
Together Italy and Croatia cover 356,000 km², close to the size of Germany (358,000 km², 0.4% bigger).
The gap between them, 246,000 km², is about the size of Guinea (244,000 km²).
At Croatia's density, Italy would have 21.2 million people (it has 58.9 million). At Italy's density, Croatia would have 10.8 million (it has 3.9 million).
Croatia's centre is 2.4° of latitude, about 260 km, farther north than Italy's.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Italy	5.47×
More people	Italy	15.2×
More crowded	Italy	2.78×
Farther north	Croatia	2.4° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Croatia	2.0× against 1.9×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Italy	Croatia
Belgium 30,700 km²	9.82×	1.79×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	1.24×	0.23×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.84×	0.15×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.81×	0.15×
France 548,000 km²	0.55×	0.10×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.10×	0.02×
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 309

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

Side by side

	Italy	Croatia
Area, main territory	301,000 km²116,000 mi²	55,000 km²21,200 mi²
Population	58.9 millionWikidata, 2023	3.9 millionWikidata, 2021
Density	195 per km²	70 per km²
Official area	302,000 km²Wikidata	56,600 km²Wikidata
Capital	Rome	Zagreb
Latitude range	35°N to 47°N	42°N to 47°N
Continent	Europe	Europe

Population: Wikidata 2023 and Wikidata 2021, 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 55,000 km² is 2.8% below Wikidata's official figure of 56,600 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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