Italy is 3.16× the size of Liberia

Italy covers about 301,000 km² (116,000 mi²) and Liberia about 95,300 km² (36,800 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

301,000km²Italy
95,300km²Liberia

200 km

Italy
Liberia

What fits

Liberia fits inside Italy about 3.16 times by area.
Italy is larger by 206,000 km² (79,500 mi²), which is 216% of the area of Liberia.
Measured in Belgiums: Italy is about 9.82, Liberia about 3.11.

How they differ

Italy also has the larger population: 58.9 million against 5.2 million, 11.3× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 195 in Italy against 55 in Liberia: Italy is 3.57× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 4,550 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Italy at 43°N is drawn about 1.9× too large and Liberia at 6°N about 1.0×, so the map shows Italy as 5.78× the size of Liberia instead of 3.16×.
Together Italy and Liberia cover 396,000 km², close to the size of Paraguay (400,000 km², 0.9% bigger).
The gap between them, 206,000 km², is about the size of Belarus (207,000 km²).
At Liberia's density, Italy would have 16.5 million people (it has 58.9 million). At Italy's density, Liberia would have 18.6 million (it has 5.2 million).
Italy's centre is 36.3° of latitude, about 4,030 km, farther north than Liberia's.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Italy	3.16×
More people	Italy	11.3×
More crowded	Italy	3.57×
Farther north	Italy	36.3° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Italy	1.9× against 1.0×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Italy	Liberia
Belgium 30,700 km²	9.82×	3.11×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	1.24×	0.39×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.84×	0.27×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.81×	0.26×
France 548,000 km²	0.55×	0.17×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.10×	0.03×
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×	0.01×

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

Side by side

	Italy	Liberia
Area, main territory	301,000 km²116,000 mi²	95,300 km²36,800 mi²
Population	58.9 millionWikidata, 2023	5.2 millionWikidata, 2021
Density	195 per km²	55 per km²
Official area	302,000 km²Wikidata	111,000 km²Wikidata
Capital	Rome	Monrovia
Latitude range	35°N to 47°N	4°N to 9°N
Continent	Europe	Africa

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 95,300 km² is 14% below Wikidata's official figure of 111,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.

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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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