Italy is 1.43× the size of Guyana

Italy covers about 301,000 km² (116,000 mi²) and Guyana about 211,000 km² (81,600 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

301,000km²Italy
211,000km²Guyana

200 km

Italy
Guyana

What fits

Guyana is 70% of the size of Italy.
Italy is larger by 90,000 km² (34,700 mi²), which is 43% of the area of Guyana.
Measured in Belgiums: Italy is about 9.82, Guyana about 6.89.

How they differ

Italy also has the larger population: 58.9 million against 879,000, 67.0× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 195 in Italy against 4.2 in Guyana: Italy is 47.0× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 8,110 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Italy at 43°N is drawn about 1.9× too large and Guyana at 5°N about 1.0×, so the map shows Italy as 2.62× the size of Guyana instead of 1.43×.
Together Italy and Guyana cover 512,000 km², close to the size of Thailand (514,000 km², 0.4% bigger).
The gap between them, 90,000 km², is about the size of Western Sahara (90,500 km²).
At Guyana's density, Italy would have 1.3 million people (it has 58.9 million). At Italy's density, Guyana would have 41.3 million (it has 879,000).
Italy's centre is 37.9° of latitude, about 4,220 km, farther north than Guyana's.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Italy	1.43×
More people	Italy	67.0×
More crowded	Italy	47.0×
Farther north	Italy	37.9° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Italy	1.9× against 1.0×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Italy	Guyana
Belgium 30,700 km²	9.82×	6.89×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	1.24×	0.87×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.84×	0.59×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.81×	0.57×
France 548,000 km²	0.55×	0.39×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.10×	0.07×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.04×	0.02×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.03×	0.02×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.02×	0.01×

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

Side by side

	Italy	Guyana
Area, main territory	301,000 km²116,000 mi²	211,000 km²81,600 mi²
Population	58.9 millionWikidata, 2023	879,000Wikidata, 2022
Density	195 per km²	4.2 per km²
Official area	302,000 km²Wikidata	215,000 km²Wikidata
Capital	Rome	Georgetown
Latitude range	35°N to 47°N	1°N to 9°N
Continent	Europe	South America

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 215,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 211,000 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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