Sulawesi is 1.06× the size of Tunisia

Sulawesi (island) covers about 166,000 km² (64,200 mi²) and Tunisia (country) about 157,000 km² (60,500 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Sulawesi outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

166,000km²Sulawesi
157,000km²Tunisia

200 km

Sulawesi
Tunisia

What fits

Tunisia is 94% of the size of Sulawesi.
Sulawesi is larger by 9,720 km² (3,750 mi²), which is 6.2% of the area of Tunisia.
Measured in Belgiums: Sulawesi is about 5.42, Tunisia about 5.11.

How they differ

Their centres are about 12,100 km apart.
On a standard web map Tunisia looks larger than Sulawesi: Sulawesi at 2°S is drawn about 1.0× too large and Tunisia at 34°N about 1.5×, so the map shows Tunisia as 1.37× the size of Sulawesi, when Sulawesi is 1.06× the size of Tunisia.
Together Sulawesi and Tunisia cover 323,000 km², close to the size of Ivory Coast (321,000 km², 0.7% smaller).
The gap between them, 9,720 km², is about the size of Lebanon (10,000 km²).
Tunisia's centre is 36.1° of latitude, about 4,010 km, farther north than Sulawesi's.
Sulawesi is an island and ranks 10th of the 81 islands on sizeversus by area.
Tunisia ranks 92nd of 212 countries by area.
Laid out flat, Sulawesi stretches about 822 km north to south and 717 km east to west; Tunisia about 791 km by 379 km.
Our measured 166,000 km² is 4.7% below Wikidata’s published figure of 175,000 km². Published areas of lakes and seas move with the water level and with what is counted, so a few percent is expected.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Sulawesi	1.06×
Farther north	Tunisia	36.1° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Tunisia	1.5× against 1.0×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Sulawesi	Tunisia
Belgium 30,700 km²	5.42×	5.11×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.68×	0.64×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.47×	0.44×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.45×	0.42×
France 548,000 km²	0.30×	0.29×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.05×	0.05×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.02×	0.02×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.02×	0.02×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×

Each figure is the place's area divided by the yardstick's.

Side by side

	Sulawesi	Tunisia
Is a	Islandisland on sizeversus	CountryAfrica
Area, measured	166,000 km²64,200 mi²	157,000 km²60,500 mi²
Area, published	175,000 km²Wikidata	164,000 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	10th of 81islands	92nd of 212countries
Latitude range	6°S to 2°N	30°N to 37°N
On the shore	1 on the shore	–

Published figures: Wikidata (CC0). A lake or a sea has no legal boundary: the measured area is that of Natural Earth’s outline, and it is shown beside the published one.

Natural Earth’s outlines of Indonesia contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Sulawesi. That is what its geometry says, and it is not a statement about who owns the water or where any border runs in it.

Similar in size to Sulawesi

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Sources and method

Outlines: Lakes and seas: Natural Earth 1:10m physical vectors (public domain), kept only where the measured area is within 10% of the published one. Countries and regions: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 and Admin 1, public domain.
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. A lake or a sea has no legal boundary of its own; the outline is a cartographic one.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded. The published figure comes from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-11, and is shown beside the measured one.
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: 2026-11-11

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