Samoa is 1.14× the size of Saga
Samoa (Oceania) covers about 2,780 km² (1,070 mi²) and Saga (prefecture of Japan) about 2,450 km² (945 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.
- 2,780km²Samoa
- 2,450km²Saga
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- Samoa
- Saga
What fits
- Saga is 88% of the size of Samoa.
- Samoa is larger by 333 km² (129 mi²), which is 14% of the area of Saga.
- Measured in Belgiums: Samoa is about 0.09, Saga about 0.08.
How they differ
- Samoa is larger, but Saga has the larger population: 810,000 against 200,000, 4.05× as many people.
- Per square kilometre that is 331 in Saga against 72 in Samoa: Saga is 4.60× as densely populated.
- Their centres are about 8,050 km apart.
- On a standard web map Saga looks larger than Samoa: Samoa at 14°S is drawn about 1.1× too large and Saga at 33°N about 1.4×, so the map shows Saga as 1.19× the size of Samoa, when Samoa is 1.14× the size of Saga.
- Together Samoa and Saga cover 5,230 km², close to the size of Trinidad and Tobago (5,120 km², 2.0% smaller).
- The gap between them, 333 km², is about the size of Malta (326 km²).
- At Saga's density, Samoa would have 920,000 people (it has 200,000). At Samoa's density, Saga would have 176,000 (it has 810,000).
- Saga's centre is 47.0° of latitude, about 5,230 km, farther north than Samoa's.
- Samoa ranks 180th of 246 countries and territories by area.
- Saga is the 42nd largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 0.7% of its area; it is the 17th most densely populated of them.
- Saga lies about 47° of latitude (roughly 5,230 km) north of Samoa, on the other side of the equator.
- Shared out evenly, each person in Samoa would have about 13,900 m² and each person in Saga about 3,020 m².
- Laid side by side, Samoa and Saga would cover 5,230 km², about the same size as Trinidad and Tobago.
- Together they have 1.0 million people, 1.09× as many people as Fiji.
- Saga is drawn from 74 points: at a size under 2,500 km² the outline is a sketch, so the overlap shows the proportions rather than the exact shape.
- Counted as a country, Saga would rank 181st by area and 165th by population.
Side by side
| Samoa | Saga | |
|---|---|---|
| Is a | CountryOceania | PrefectureJapan |
| Area, measured | 2,780 km²1,070 mi² | 2,450 km²945 mi² |
| Official area | 2,840 km²Wikidata | 2,440 km²Wikidata |
| Rank by area | 179th of 239worldwide | 42nd of 47in Japan |
| Population | 200,000Wikidata, 2021 | 810,000Wikidata, 2021 |
| Rank by population | 183rd of 237worldwide | 41st of 47in Japan |
| Density | 72 per km² | 331 per km² |
| Capital | Apia | Saga |
| Latitude range | 14°S to 13°S | 33°N to 34°N |
Population: Wikidata 2021. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).
- Our measured 2,780 km² is 2.2% below Wikidata's official figure of 2,840 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.
- Wikidata's official figure of 2,440 km² agrees with our measured area of 2,450 km², to within 2%.
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Sources and method
- Outlines
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain for the region; Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, 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