Latvia is 1.02× the size of Tasmania

Latvia (country) covers about 64,600 km² (24,900 mi²) and Tasmania (island) about 63,200 km² (24,400 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Tasmania outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

64,600km²Latvia
63,200km²Tasmania

100 km

Latvia
Tasmania

What fits

Tasmania is 98% of the size of Latvia.
Latvia is larger by 1,360 km² (524 mi²), which is 2.1% of the area of Tasmania.
Measured in Belgiums: Latvia is about 2.11, Tasmania about 2.06.

How they differ

Their centres are about 15,600 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Latvia at 57°N is drawn about 3.3× too large and Tasmania at 42°S about 1.8×, so the map shows Latvia as 1.89× the size of Tasmania instead of 1.02×.
Together Latvia and Tasmania cover 128,000 km², close to the size of Nicaragua (129,000 km², 0.7% bigger).
The gap between them, 1,360 km², is about the size of Comoros (1,670 km²).
Latvia's centre is 98.9° of latitude, about 10,990 km, farther north than Tasmania's.
Latvia ranks 125th of 212 countries by area.
Tasmania is an island and ranks 25th of the 81 islands on sizeversus by area.
Laid out flat, Latvia stretches about 266 km north to south and 447 km east to west; Tasmania about 325 km by 308 km.
Our measured 63,200 km² is 2.8% below Wikidata’s published figure of 65,000 km². Published areas of lakes and seas move with the water level and with what is counted, so a few percent is expected.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Latvia	1.02×
Farther north	Latvia	98.9° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Latvia	3.3× against 1.8×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Latvia	Tasmania
Belgium 30,700 km²	2.11×	2.06×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.26×	0.26×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.18×	0.18×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.17×	0.17×
France 548,000 km²	0.12×	0.12×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.02×	0.02×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	1 in 263	1 in 269

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

Side by side

	Latvia	Tasmania
Is a	CountryEurope	Islandisland on sizeversus
Area, measured	64,600 km²24,900 mi²	63,200 km²24,400 mi²
Area, published	64,600 km²Wikidata	65,000 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	125th of 212countries	25th of 81islands
Latitude range	56°N to 58°N	44°S to 41°S
On the shore	–	1 on the shore

Published figures: Wikidata (CC0). A lake or a sea has no legal boundary: the measured area is that of Natural Earth’s outline, and it is shown beside the published one.

Natural Earth’s outlines of Australia contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Tasmania. That is what its geometry says, and it is not a statement about who owns the water or where any border runs in it.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Lakes and seas: Natural Earth 1:10m physical vectors (public domain), kept only where the measured area is within 10% of the published one. Countries and regions: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 and Admin 1, public domain.
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. A lake or a sea has no legal boundary of its own; the outline is a cartographic one.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded. The published figure comes from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-11, and is shown beside the measured one.
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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