Italy is 108× the size of Samoa

Italy covers about 301,000 km² (116,000 mi²) and Samoa about 2,780 km² (1,070 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

301,000km²Italy
2,780km²Samoa

200 km

Italy
Samoa

What fits

Samoa fits inside Italy about 108 times by area.
Italy is larger by 298,000 km² (115,000 mi²), which is 10,732% of the area of Samoa.
Measured in Belgiums: Italy is about 9.82, Samoa about 0.09.

How they differ

Italy also has the larger population: 58.9 million against 200,000, 294× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 195 in Italy against 72 in Samoa: Italy is 2.72× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 16,800 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Italy at 43°N is drawn about 1.9× too large and Samoa at 14°S about 1.1×, so the map shows Italy as 189× the size of Samoa instead of 108×.
Together Italy and Samoa cover 304,000 km², close to the size of Oman (311,000 km², 2.4% bigger).
The gap between them, 298,000 km², is about the size of Philippines (293,000 km²).
At Samoa's density, Italy would have 21.7 million people (it has 58.9 million). At Italy's density, Samoa would have 543,000 (it has 200,000).
Italy's centre is 56.5° of latitude, about 6,280 km, farther north than Samoa's.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Italy	108×
More people	Italy	294×
More crowded	Italy	2.72×
Farther north	Italy	56.5° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Italy	1.9× against 1.1×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Italy	Samoa
Belgium 30,700 km²	9.82×	0.09×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	1.24×	0.01×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.84×	0.01×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.81×	0.01×
France 548,000 km²	0.55×	0.01×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.10×	1 in 1,133
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.04×	1 in 3,047
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.03×	1 in 3,398
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.02×	1 in 6,107

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

Side by side

	Italy	Samoa
Area, main territory	301,000 km²116,000 mi²	2,780 km²1,070 mi²
Population	58.9 millionWikidata, 2023	200,000Wikidata, 2021
Density	195 per km²	72 per km²
Official area	302,000 km²Wikidata	2,840 km²Wikidata
Capital	Rome	Apia
Latitude range	35°N to 47°N	14°S to 13°S
Continent	Europe	Oceania

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 2,780 km² is 2.2% below Wikidata's official figure of 2,840 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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