Tasmania (Australia) is 17.3× the size of Cape Verde

Tasmania (Australia) (state of Australia) covers about 68,100 km² (26,300 mi²) and Cape Verde (Africa) about 3,930 km² (1,520 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

68,100km²Tasmania (Australia)
3,930km²Cape Verde

100 km

Tasmania (Australia)
Cape Verde

What fits

Cape Verde fits inside Tasmania (Australia) about 17.3 times by area.
Tasmania (Australia) is larger by 64,200 km² (24,800 mi²), which is 1,635% of the area of Cape Verde.
Measured in Belgiums: Tasmania (Australia) is about 2.22, Cape Verde about 0.13.

How they differ

Tasmania (Australia) is larger, but Cape Verde has the larger population: 556,000 against 540,000, 1.03× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 142 in Cape Verde against 7.9 in Tasmania (Australia): Cape Verde is 17.9× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 17,000 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Tasmania (Australia) at 42°S is drawn about 1.8× too large and Cape Verde at 16°N about 1.1×, so the map shows Tasmania (Australia) as 29.0× the size of Cape Verde instead of 17.3×.
Together Tasmania (Australia) and Cape Verde cover 72,000 km², close to the size of Sierra Leone (71,600 km², 0.6% smaller).
The gap between them, 64,200 km², is about the size of Latvia (64,600 km²).
At Cape Verde's density, Tasmania (Australia) would have 9.6 million people (it has 540,000). At Tasmania (Australia)'s density, Cape Verde would have 31,000 (it has 556,000).
Cape Verde's centre is 57.9° of latitude, about 6,440 km, farther north than Tasmania (Australia)'s.
Tasmania (Australia) is the 7th largest of the 8 states and territories of Australia and covers 0.9% of its area; it is the 4th most densely populated of them.
Cape Verde ranks 176th of 246 countries and territories by area.
Cape Verde lies about 58° of latitude (roughly 6,440 km) north of Tasmania (Australia), on the other side of the equator.
Shared out evenly, each person in Tasmania (Australia) would have about 126,230 m² and each person in Cape Verde about 7,060 m².
Laid side by side, Tasmania (Australia) and Cape Verde would cover 72,000 km², about the same size as Sierra Leone.
Together they have 1.1 million people, 95% as many people as Djibouti.
Counted as a country, Tasmania (Australia) would rank 123rd by area and 173rd by population.

Side by side

	Tasmania (Australia)	Cape Verde
Is a	StateAustralia	CountryAfrica
Area, measured	68,100 km²26,300 mi²	3,930 km²1,520 mi²
Official area	68,400 km²Wikidata	4,030 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	7th of 8in Australia	175th of 239worldwide
Population	540,000Wikidata, 2020	556,000Wikidata, 2020
Rank by population	6th of 8in Australia	171st of 237worldwide
Density	7.9 per km²	142 per km²
Capital	Hobart	Praia
Latitude range	44°S to 40°S	15°N to 17°N

Population: Wikidata 2020. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 68,400 km² agrees with our measured area of 68,100 km², to within 2%.
Our measured 3,930 km² is 2.6% below Wikidata's official figure of 4,030 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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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

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