Namibia is 1.05× the size of Turkey

Namibia covers about 823,000 km² (318,000 mi²) and Turkey about 780,000 km² (301,000 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

823,000km²Namibia
780,000km²Turkey

500 km

Namibia
Turkey

What fits

Turkey is 95% of the size of Namibia.
Namibia is larger by 42,600 km² (16,500 mi²), which is 5.5% of the area of Turkey.
Measured in Belgiums: Namibia is about 26.8, Turkey about 25.4.

How they differ

Namibia is larger, but Turkey has the larger population: 85.4 million against 2.5 million, 33.7× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 109 in Turkey against 3.1 in Namibia: Turkey is 35.5× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 7,060 km apart.
On a standard web map Turkey looks larger than Namibia: Namibia at 22°S is drawn about 1.2× too large and Turkey at 39°N about 1.7×, so the map shows Turkey as 1.35× the size of Namibia, when Namibia is 1.05× the size of Turkey.
Together Namibia and Turkey cover 1,603,000 km², close to the size of Iran (1,623,000 km², 1.2% bigger).
The gap between them, 42,600 km², is about the size of Denmark (42,700 km²).
At Turkey's density, Namibia would have 90.0 million people (it has 2.5 million). At Namibia's density, Turkey would have 2.4 million (it has 85.4 million).
Turkey's centre is 61.2° of latitude, about 6,810 km, farther north than Namibia's.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Namibia	1.05×
More people	Turkey	33.7×
More crowded	Turkey	35.5×
Farther north	Turkey	61.2° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Turkey	1.7× against 1.2×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Namibia	Turkey
Belgium 30,700 km²	26.8×	25.4×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	3.37×	3.20×
Germany 358,000 km²	2.30×	2.18×
Japan 374,000 km²	2.20×	2.09×
France 548,000 km²	1.50×	1.42×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.26×	0.25×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.10×	0.09×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.09×	0.08×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.05×	0.05×

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

Side by side

	Namibia	Turkey
Area, main territory	823,000 km²318,000 mi²	780,000 km²301,000 mi²
Population	2.5 millionWikidata, 2017	85.4 millionWikidata, 2023
Density	3.1 per km²	109 per km²
Official area	826,000 km²Wikidata	784,000 km²Wikidata
Capital	Windhoek	Ankara
Latitude range	29°S to 17°S	36°N to 42°N
Continent	Africa	Asia

Population: Wikidata 2017 and Wikidata 2023, covering each whole country. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 826,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 823,000 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 784,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 780,000 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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