Netherlands is 1.05× the size of Kyushu

The Netherlands (country) covers about 37,100 km² (14,300 mi²) and Kyushu (island) about 35,400 km² (13,700 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Kyushu outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

37,100km²Netherlands
35,400km²Kyushu

50 km

Netherlands
Kyushu

What fits

Kyushu is 95% of the size of Netherlands.
Netherlands is larger by 1,730 km² (668 mi²), which is 4.9% of the area of Kyushu.
Measured in Belgiums: Netherlands is about 1.21, Kyushu about 1.15.

How they differ

Their centres are about 9,190 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Netherlands at 52°N is drawn about 2.7× too large and Kyushu at 33°N about 1.4×, so the map shows Netherlands as 1.99× the size of Kyushu instead of 1.05×.
Together Netherlands and Kyushu cover 72,500 km², close to the size of Sierra Leone (71,600 km², 1.2% smaller).
The gap between them, 1,730 km², is about the size of Comoros (1,670 km²).
Netherlands's centre is 19.6° of latitude, about 2,180 km, farther north than Kyushu's.
Netherlands ranks 136th of 212 countries by area.
Kyushu is an island and ranks 35th of the 81 islands on sizeversus by area.
Laid out flat, the Netherlands stretches about 307 km north to south and 263 km east to west; Kyushu about 324 km by 226 km.
Our measured 35,400 km² is 3.8% below Wikidata’s published figure of 36,800 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	Netherlands	1.05×
Farther north	Netherlands	19.6° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Netherlands	2.7× against 1.4×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Netherlands	Kyushu
Belgium 30,700 km²	1.21×	1.15×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.15×	0.15×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.10×	0.10×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.10×	0.09×
France 548,000 km²	0.07×	0.06×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	1 in 228	1 in 240
United States 9,447,000 km²	1 in 255	1 in 267
Russia 16,980,000 km²	1 in 458	1 in 480

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

Side by side

	Netherlands	Kyushu
Is a	CountryEurope	Islandisland on sizeversus
Area, measured	37,100 km²14,300 mi²	35,400 km²13,700 mi²
Area, published	37,400 km²Wikidata	36,800 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	136th of 212countries	35th of 81islands
Latitude range	51°N to 54°N	31°N to 34°N
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 Japan contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Kyushu. 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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