Oman is 1.03× the size of Italy

Oman covers about 311,000 km² (120,000 mi²) and Italy about 301,000 km² (116,000 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

311,000km²Oman
301,000km²Italy

200 km

Oman
Italy

What fits

Italy is 97% of the size of Oman.
Oman is larger by 10,000 km² (3,870 mi²), which is 3.3% of the area of Italy.
Measured in Belgiums: Oman is about 10.1, Italy about 9.82.

How they differ

Oman is larger, but Italy has the larger population: 58.9 million against 4.8 million, 12.2× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 195 in Italy against 16 in Oman: Italy is 12.6× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 4,750 km apart.
On a standard web map Italy looks larger than Oman: Oman at 21°N is drawn about 1.1× too large and Italy at 43°N about 1.9×, so the map shows Italy as 1.57× the size of Oman, when Oman is 1.03× the size of Italy.
Together Oman and Italy cover 612,000 km², close to the size of Central African Republic (618,000 km², 0.9% bigger).
The gap between them, 10,000 km², is about the size of Lebanon (10,000 km²).
At Italy's density, Oman would have 60.8 million people (it has 4.8 million). At Oman's density, Italy would have 4.7 million (it has 58.9 million).
Italy's centre is 22.1° of latitude, about 2,460 km, farther north than Oman's.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Oman	1.03×
More people	Italy	12.2×
More crowded	Italy	12.6×
Farther north	Italy	22.1° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Italy	1.9× against 1.1×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Oman	Italy
Belgium 30,700 km²	10.1×	9.82×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	1.28×	1.24×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.87×	0.84×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.83×	0.81×
France 548,000 km²	0.57×	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

	Oman	Italy
Area, main territory	311,000 km²120,000 mi²	301,000 km²116,000 mi²
Population	4.8 millionWikidata, 2018	58.9 millionWikidata, 2023
Density	16 per km²	195 per km²
Official area	310,000 km²Wikidata	302,000 km²Wikidata
Capital	Muscat	Rome
Latitude range	17°N to 26°N	35°N to 47°N
Continent	Asia	Europe

Population: Wikidata 2018 and Wikidata 2023, covering each whole country. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 310,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 311,000 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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