Ivory Coast is 1.02× the size of Poland

Ivory Coast covers about 321,000 km² (124,000 mi²) and Poland about 313,000 km² (121,000 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

321,000km²Ivory Coast
313,000km²Poland

200 km

Ivory Coast
Poland

What fits

Poland is 98% of the size of Ivory Coast.
Ivory Coast is larger by 7,250 km² (2,800 mi²), which is 2.3% of the area of Poland.
Measured in Belgiums: Ivory Coast is about 10.5, Poland about 10.2.

How they differ

Ivory Coast is larger, but Poland has the larger population: 37.6 million against 31.2 million, 1.21× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 120 in Poland against 97 in Ivory Coast: Poland is 1.23× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 5,450 km apart.
On a standard web map Poland looks larger than Ivory Coast: Ivory Coast at 8°N is drawn about 1.0× too large and Poland at 52°N about 2.7×, so the map shows Poland as 2.55× the size of Ivory Coast, when Ivory Coast is 1.02× the size of Poland.
Together Ivory Coast and Poland cover 634,000 km², close to the size of South Sudan (627,000 km², 1.1% smaller).
The gap between them, 7,250 km², is about the size of Palestine (6,070 km²).
At Poland's density, Ivory Coast would have 38.4 million people (it has 31.2 million). At Ivory Coast's density, Poland would have 30.5 million (it has 37.6 million).
Poland's centre is 44.5° of latitude, about 4,950 km, farther north than Ivory Coast's.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Ivory Coast	1.02×
More people	Poland	1.21×
More crowded	Poland	1.23×
Farther north	Poland	44.5° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Poland	2.7× against 1.0×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Ivory Coast	Poland
Belgium 30,700 km²	10.5×	10.2×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	1.32×	1.29×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.90×	0.88×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.86×	0.84×
France 548,000 km²	0.59×	0.57×
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	Poland
Area, main territory	321,000 km²124,000 mi²	313,000 km²121,000 mi²
Population	31.2 millionWikidata, 2023	37.6 millionWikidata, 2024
Density	97 per km²	120 per km²
Official area	322,000 km²Wikidata	313,000 km²Wikidata
Capital	Yamoussoukro	Warsaw
Latitude range	4°N to 11°N	49°N to 55°N
Continent	Africa	Europe

Population: Wikidata 2023 and Wikidata 2024, 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 313,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 313,000 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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