Ivory Coast is 1.06× the size of Italy

Ivory Coast covers about 321,000 km² (124,000 mi²) and Italy about 301,000 km² (116,000 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

321,000km²Ivory Coast
301,000km²Italy

200 km

Ivory Coast
Italy

What fits

Italy is 94% of the size of Ivory Coast.
Ivory Coast is larger by 19,500 km² (7,530 mi²), which is 6.5% of the area of Italy.
Measured in Belgiums: Ivory Coast is about 10.5, Italy about 9.82.

How they differ

Ivory Coast is larger, but Italy has the larger population: 58.9 million against 31.2 million, 1.89× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 195 in Italy against 97 in Ivory Coast: Italy is 2.01× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 4,270 km apart.
On a standard web map Italy looks larger than Ivory Coast: Ivory Coast at 8°N is drawn about 1.0× too large and Italy at 43°N about 1.9×, so the map shows Italy as 1.71× the size of Ivory Coast, when Ivory Coast is 1.06× the size of Italy.
Together Ivory Coast and Italy cover 622,000 km², close to the size of Central African Republic (618,000 km², 0.6% smaller).
The gap between them, 19,500 km², is about the size of Fiji (18,900 km²).
At Italy's density, Ivory Coast would have 62.7 million people (it has 31.2 million). At Ivory Coast's density, Italy would have 29.3 million (it has 58.9 million).
Italy's centre is 35.1° of latitude, about 3,900 km, farther north than Ivory Coast's.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Ivory Coast	1.06×
More people	Italy	1.89×
More crowded	Italy	2.01×
Farther north	Italy	35.1° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Italy	1.9× against 1.0×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Ivory Coast	Italy
Belgium 30,700 km²	10.5×	9.82×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	1.32×	1.24×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.90×	0.84×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.86×	0.81×
France 548,000 km²	0.59×	0.55×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.10×	0.10×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.04×	0.04×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.03×	0.03×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.02×	0.02×

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

Side by side

	Ivory Coast	Italy
Area, main territory	321,000 km²124,000 mi²	301,000 km²116,000 mi²
Population	31.2 millionWikidata, 2023	58.9 millionWikidata, 2023
Density	97 per km²	195 per km²
Official area	322,000 km²Wikidata	302,000 km²Wikidata
Capital	Yamoussoukro	Rome
Latitude range	4°N to 11°N	35°N to 47°N
Continent	Africa	Europe

Population: Wikidata 2023, covering each whole country. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 322,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 321,000 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 302,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 301,000 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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