Italy is 6.57× the size of Estonia

Italy covers about 301,000 km² (116,000 mi²) and Estonia about 45,800 km² (17,700 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

301,000km²Italy
45,800km²Estonia

200 km

Italy
Estonia

What fits

Estonia fits inside Italy about 6.57 times by area.
Italy is larger by 255,000 km² (98,600 mi²), which is 557% of the area of Estonia.
Measured in Belgiums: Italy is about 9.82, Estonia about 1.49.

How they differ

Italy also has the larger population: 58.9 million against 1.4 million, 43.0× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 195 in Italy against 30 in Estonia: Italy is 6.54× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 2,000 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Italy at 43°N is drawn about 1.9× too large and Estonia at 59°N about 3.7×, so the map shows Italy as 3.29× the size of Estonia instead of 6.57×.
Together Italy and Estonia cover 347,000 km², close to the size of Republic of the Congo (345,000 km², 0.6% smaller).
The gap between them, 255,000 km², is about the size of Ecuador (255,000 km²).
At Estonia's density, Italy would have 9.0 million people (it has 58.9 million). At Italy's density, Estonia would have 9.0 million (it has 1.4 million).
Estonia's centre is 16.0° of latitude, about 1,780 km, farther north than Italy's.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Italy	6.57×
More people	Italy	43.0×
More crowded	Italy	6.54×
Farther north	Estonia	16.0° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Estonia	3.7× against 1.9×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Italy	Estonia
Belgium 30,700 km²	9.82×	1.49×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	1.24×	0.19×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.84×	0.13×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.81×	0.12×
France 548,000 km²	0.55×	0.08×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.10×	0.01×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.04×	0.01×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.03×	1 in 206
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.02×	1 in 371

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

Side by side

	Italy	Estonia
Area, main territory	301,000 km²116,000 mi²	45,800 km²17,700 mi²
Population	58.9 millionWikidata, 2023	1.4 millionWikidata, 2025
Density	195 per km²	30 per km²
Official area	302,000 km²Wikidata	45,300 km²Wikidata
Capital	Rome	Tallinn
Latitude range	35°N to 47°N	58°N to 60°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 45,300 km² agrees with our measured area of 45,800 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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