Prince Edward Island is 1.27× the size of Molise

Prince Edward Island (province of Canada) covers about 5,730 km² (2,210 mi²) and Molise (region of Italy) about 4,530 km² (1,750 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

5,730km²Prince Edward Island
4,530km²Molise

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Prince Edward Island
Molise

What fits

Molise is 79% of the size of Prince Edward Island.
Prince Edward Island is larger by 1,210 km² (466 mi²), which is 27% of the area of Molise.
Measured in Belgiums: Prince Edward Island is about 0.19, Molise about 0.15.

How they differ

Prince Edward Island is larger, but Molise has the larger population: 304,000 against 154,000, 1.97× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 67 in Molise against 27 in Prince Edward Island: Molise is 2.50× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 5,990 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Prince Edward Island at 46°N is drawn about 2.1× too large and Molise at 42°N about 1.8×, so the map shows Prince Edward Island as 1.49× the size of Molise instead of 1.27×.
Together Prince Edward Island and Molise cover 10,300 km², close to the size of Gambia (10,500 km², 2.4% bigger).
The gap between them, 1,210 km², is about the size of São Tomé and Príncipe (1,040 km²).
At Molise's density, Prince Edward Island would have 386,000 people (it has 154,000). At Prince Edward Island's density, Molise would have 122,000 (it has 304,000).
Prince Edward Island's centre is 4.7° of latitude, about 520 km, farther north than Molise'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.
Molise is the 19th largest of the 20 regions of Italy and covers 1.5% of its area; it is the 18th most densely populated of them.
Prince Edward Island lies about 5° of latitude (roughly 524 km) north of Molise.
Shared out evenly, each person in Prince Edward Island would have about 37,150 m² and each person in Molise about 14,870 m².
Laid side by side, Prince Edward Island and Molise would cover 10,300 km², about the same size as the Gambia.
Together they have 459,000 people, about as many people as Brunei.

Side by side

	Prince Edward Island	Molise
Is a	ProvinceCanada	RegionItaly
Area, measured	5,730 km²2,210 mi²	4,530 km²1,750 mi²
Official area	5,620 km²Wikidata	4,440 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	13th of 13in Canada	19th of 20in Italy
Population	154,000Wikidata, 2021	304,000Wikidata, 2019
Rank by population	10th of 13in Canada	19th of 20in Italy
Density	27 per km²	67 per km²
Capital	Charlottetown	Campobasso
Latitude range	46°N to 47°N	41°N to 42°N

Population: Wikidata 2021 and Wikidata 2019. 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 4,440 km² agrees with our measured area of 4,530 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain. The outline of Molise is the provinces Natural Earth draws there, joined along their shared borders.
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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