Prince Edward Island is 1.24× the size of Kyoto

Prince Edward Island (province of Canada) covers about 5,730 km² (2,210 mi²) and Kyoto (prefecture of Japan) about 4,610 km² (1,780 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

5,730km²Prince Edward Island
4,610km²Kyoto

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Prince Edward Island
Kyoto

What fits

Kyoto is 80% of the size of Prince Edward Island.
Prince Edward Island is larger by 1,120 km² (433 mi²), which is 24% of the area of Kyoto.
Measured in Belgiums: Prince Edward Island is about 0.19, Kyoto about 0.15.

How they differ

Prince Edward Island is larger, but Kyoto has the larger population: 2.6 million against 154,000, 16.6× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 556 in Kyoto against 27 in Prince Edward Island: Kyoto is 20.6× 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 Kyoto at 35°N about 1.5×, so the map shows Prince Edward Island as 1.74× the size of Kyoto instead of 1.24×.
Together Prince Edward Island and Kyoto cover 10,300 km², close to the size of Gambia (10,500 km², 1.5% bigger).
The gap between them, 1,120 km², is about the size of São Tomé and Príncipe (1,040 km²).
At Kyoto's density, Prince Edward Island would have 3.2 million people (it has 154,000). At Prince Edward Island's density, Kyoto would have 124,000 (it has 2.6 million).
Prince Edward Island's centre is 11.2° of latitude, about 1,240 km, farther north than Kyoto'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.
Kyoto is the 30th largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 1.2% of its area; it is the 10th most densely populated of them.
Prince Edward Island lies about 11° of latitude (roughly 1,240 km) north of Kyoto.
Shared out evenly, each person in Prince Edward Island would have about 37,150 m² and each person in Kyoto about 1,800 m².
Laid side by side, Prince Edward Island and Kyoto would cover 10,300 km², about the same size as the Gambia.
Together they have 2.7 million people, about as many people as Jamaica.

Side by side

	Prince Edward Island	Kyoto
Is a	ProvinceCanada	PrefectureJapan
Area, measured	5,730 km²2,210 mi²	4,610 km²1,780 mi²
Official area	5,620 km²Wikidata	4,610 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	13th of 13in Canada	30th of 47in Japan
Population	154,000Wikidata, 2021	2.6 millionWikidata, 2021
Rank by population	10th of 13in Canada	13th of 47in Japan
Density	27 per km²	556 per km²
Capital	Charlottetown	Kyoto
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 4,610 km² agrees with our measured area of 4,610 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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