Poland is 1.04× the size of Italy

Poland covers about 313,000 km² (121,000 mi²) and Italy about 301,000 km² (116,000 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

313,000km²Poland
301,000km²Italy

200 km

Poland
Italy

What fits

Italy is 96% of the size of Poland.
Poland is larger by 12,200 km² (4,730 mi²), which is 4.1% of the area of Italy.
Measured in Belgiums: Poland is about 10.2, Italy about 9.82.

How they differ

Poland is larger, but Italy has the larger population: 58.9 million against 37.6 million, 1.57× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 195 in Italy against 120 in Poland: Italy is 1.63× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 1,180 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Poland at 52°N is drawn about 2.7× too large and Italy at 43°N about 1.9×, so the map shows Poland as 1.49× the size of Italy instead of 1.04×.
Together Poland and Italy cover 615,000 km², close to the size of Central African Republic (618,000 km², 0.5% bigger).
The gap between them, 12,200 km², is about the size of Vanuatu (12,300 km²).
At Italy's density, Poland would have 61.2 million people (it has 37.6 million). At Poland's density, Italy would have 36.1 million (it has 58.9 million).
Poland's centre is 9.4° of latitude, about 1,050 km, farther north than Italy's.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Poland	1.04×
More people	Italy	1.57×
More crowded	Italy	1.63×
Farther north	Poland	9.4° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Poland	2.7× against 1.9×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Poland	Italy
Belgium 30,700 km²	10.2×	9.82×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	1.29×	1.24×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.88×	0.84×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.84×	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

	Poland	Italy
Area, main territory	313,000 km²121,000 mi²	301,000 km²116,000 mi²
Population	37.6 millionWikidata, 2024	58.9 millionWikidata, 2023
Density	120 per km²	195 per km²
Official area	313,000 km²Wikidata	302,000 km²Wikidata
Capital	Warsaw	Rome
Latitude range	49°N to 55°N	35°N to 47°N
Continent	Europe	Europe

Population: Wikidata 2024 and Wikidata 2023, covering each whole country. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 313,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 313,000 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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