Prince Edward Island is 1.39× the size of Ishikawa

Prince Edward Island (province of Canada) covers about 5,730 km² (2,210 mi²) and Ishikawa (prefecture of Japan) about 4,110 km² (1,590 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

5,730km²Prince Edward Island
4,110km²Ishikawa

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Prince Edward Island
Ishikawa

What fits

Ishikawa is 72% of the size of Prince Edward Island.
Prince Edward Island is larger by 1,620 km² (625 mi²), which is 39% of the area of Ishikawa.
Measured in Belgiums: Prince Edward Island is about 0.19, Ishikawa about 0.13.

How they differ

Prince Edward Island is larger, but Ishikawa has the larger population: 1.1 million against 154,000, 7.34× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 275 in Ishikawa against 27 in Prince Edward Island: Ishikawa is 10.2× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 10,600 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Prince Edward Island at 46°N is drawn about 2.1× too large and Ishikawa at 37°N about 1.6×, so the map shows Prince Edward Island as 1.88× the size of Ishikawa instead of 1.39×.
Together Prince Edward Island and Ishikawa cover 9,850 km², close to the size of Lebanon (10,000 km², 1.6% bigger).
The gap between them, 1,620 km², is about the size of Comoros (1,670 km²).
At Ishikawa's density, Prince Edward Island would have 1.6 million people (it has 154,000). At Prince Edward Island's density, Ishikawa would have 111,000 (it has 1.1 million).
Prince Edward Island's centre is 9.6° of latitude, about 1,070 km, farther north than Ishikawa'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.
Ishikawa is the 36th largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 1.1% of its area; it is the 23rd most densely populated of them.
Prince Edward Island lies about 10° of latitude (roughly 1,070 km) north of Ishikawa.
Shared out evenly, each person in Prince Edward Island would have about 37,150 m² and each person in Ishikawa about 3,630 m².
Laid side by side, Prince Edward Island and Ishikawa would cover 9,850 km², about the same size as Lebanon.
Together they have 1.3 million people, about as many people as Mauritius.

Side by side

	Prince Edward Island	Ishikawa
Is a	ProvinceCanada	PrefectureJapan
Area, measured	5,730 km²2,210 mi²	4,110 km²1,590 mi²
Official area	5,620 km²Wikidata	4,190 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	13th of 13in Canada	36th of 47in Japan
Population	154,000Wikidata, 2021	1.1 millionWikidata, 2020
Rank by population	10th of 13in Canada	33rd of 47in Japan
Density	27 per km²	275 per km²
Capital	Charlottetown	Kanazawa
Latitude range	46°N to 47°N	36°N to 38°N

Population: Wikidata 2021 and Wikidata 2020. 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 4,110 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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