Tajikistan is 1.01× the size of Adriatic Sea

Tajikistan (country) covers about 142,000 km² (54,900 mi²) and the Adriatic Sea (sea) about 141,000 km² (54,400 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Adriatic Sea outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

142,000km²Tajikistan
141,000km²Adriatic Sea

200 km

Tajikistan
Adriatic Sea

What fits

Adriatic Sea is 99% of the size of Tajikistan.
Tajikistan is larger by 1,290 km² (498 mi²), which is 0.9% of the area of Adriatic Sea.
Measured in Belgiums: Tajikistan is about 4.64, Adriatic Sea about 4.60.

How they differ

Their centres are about 4,570 km apart.
On a standard web map Adriatic Sea looks larger than Tajikistan: Tajikistan at 39°N is drawn about 1.6× too large and Adriatic Sea at 43°N about 1.9×, so the map shows Adriatic Sea as 1.12× the size of Tajikistan, when Tajikistan is 1.01× the size of Adriatic Sea.
Together Tajikistan and Adriatic Sea cover 283,000 km², close to the size of Philippines (293,000 km², 3.6% bigger).
Adriatic Sea's centre is 4.2° of latitude, about 470 km, farther north than Tajikistan's.
Tajikistan ranks 95th of 212 countries by area.
The Adriatic Sea is a sea and ranks 27th of the 42 seas on sizeversus by area.
Laid out flat, Tajikistan stretches about 483 km north to south and 682 km east to west; the Adriatic Sea about 668 km by 637 km.
Wikidata’s published figure of 139,000 km² agrees with our measured 141,000 km², to within 2%.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Tajikistan	1.01×
Farther north	Adriatic Sea	4.2° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Adriatic Sea	1.9× against 1.6×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Tajikistan	Adriatic Sea
Belgium 30,700 km²	4.64×	4.60×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.58×	0.58×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.40×	0.39×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.38×	0.38×
France 548,000 km²	0.26×	0.26×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.05×	0.04×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.02×	0.02×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.02×	0.01×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×

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

Side by side

	Tajikistan	Adriatic Sea
Is a	CountryAsia	Seasea on sizeversus
Area, measured	142,000 km²54,900 mi²	141,000 km²54,400 mi²
Area, published	143,000 km²Wikidata	139,000 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	95th of 212countries	27th of 42seas
Greatest depth	–	1,233 mWikidata
Latitude range	37°N to 41°N	40°N to 46°N
On the shore	–	7 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 Italy, Croatia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Montenegro and Slovenia lie within 25 km of the outline of the Adriatic Sea. 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 Tajikistan

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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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