Prince Edward Island is 1.36× the size of Fukui

Prince Edward Island (province of Canada) covers about 5,730 km² (2,210 mi²) and Fukui (prefecture of Japan) about 4,220 km² (1,630 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

5,730km²Prince Edward Island
4,220km²Fukui

50 km

Prince Edward Island
Fukui

What fits

Fukui is 74% of the size of Prince Edward Island.
Prince Edward Island is larger by 1,510 km² (584 mi²), which is 36% of the area of Fukui.
Measured in Belgiums: Prince Edward Island is about 0.19, Fukui about 0.14.

How they differ

Prince Edward Island is larger, but Fukui has the larger population: 765,000 against 154,000, 4.95× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 181 in Fukui against 27 in Prince Edward Island: Fukui is 6.73× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 10,700 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Prince Edward Island at 46°N is drawn about 2.1× too large and Fukui at 36°N about 1.5×, so the map shows Prince Edward Island as 1.88× the size of Fukui instead of 1.36×.
Together Prince Edward Island and Fukui cover 9,950 km², close to the size of Lebanon (10,000 km², 0.5% bigger).
The gap between them, 1,510 km², is about the size of Comoros (1,670 km²).
At Fukui's density, Prince Edward Island would have 1.0 million people (it has 154,000). At Prince Edward Island's density, Fukui would have 114,000 (it has 765,000).
Prince Edward Island's centre is 10.6° of latitude, about 1,180 km, farther north than Fukui's.
Prince Edward Island is the 13th largest of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and covers less than 0.1% of its area; it is the most densely populated of them.
Fukui is the 35th largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 1.1% of its area; it is the 31st most densely populated of them.
Prince Edward Island lies about 11° of latitude (roughly 1,180 km) north of Fukui.
Shared out evenly, each person in Prince Edward Island would have about 37,150 m² and each person in Fukui about 5,520 m².
Laid side by side, Prince Edward Island and Fukui would cover 9,950 km², about the same size as Lebanon.
Together they have 919,000 people, about as many people as Fiji.

Side by side

	Prince Edward Island	Fukui
Is a	ProvinceCanada	PrefectureJapan
Area, measured	5,730 km²2,210 mi²	4,220 km²1,630 mi²
Official area	5,620 km²Wikidata	4,190 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	13th of 13in Canada	35th of 47in Japan
Population	154,000Wikidata, 2021	765,000Wikidata, 2021
Rank by population	10th of 13in Canada	43rd of 47in Japan
Density	27 per km²	181 per km²
Capital	Charlottetown	Fukui
Latitude range	46°N to 47°N	35°N to 36°N

Population: Wikidata 2021. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Our measured 5,730 km² is 2.0% above Wikidata's official figure of 5,620 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.
Wikidata's official figure of 4,190 km² agrees with our measured area of 4,220 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. A region is drawn whole, every island included; a country is its main territory.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded.
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: 2026-11-12

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