Thailand is 1.01× the size of Baffin Island

Thailand (country) covers about 514,000 km² (199,000 mi²) and Baffin Island (island) about 509,000 km² (196,000 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Baffin Island outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

514,000km²Thailand
509,000km²Baffin Island

200 km

Thailand
Baffin Island

What fits

Baffin Island is 99% of the size of Thailand.
Thailand is larger by 5,590 km² (2,160 mi²), which is 1.1% of the area of Baffin Island.
Measured in Belgiums: Thailand is about 16.8, Baffin Island about 16.6.

How they differ

Their centres are about 10,700 km apart.
On a standard web map Baffin Island looks larger than Thailand: Thailand at 15°N is drawn about 1.1× too large and Baffin Island at 68°N about 7.3×, so the map shows Baffin Island as 6.76× the size of Thailand, when Thailand is 1.01× the size of Baffin Island.
Together Thailand and Baffin Island cover 1,023,000 km², close to the size of Mauritania (1,036,000 km², 1.3% bigger).
The gap between them, 5,590 km², is about the size of Brunei (5,720 km²).
Baffin Island's centre is 53.3° of latitude, about 5,920 km, farther north than Thailand's.
Thailand ranks 50th of 212 countries by area.
Baffin Island is an island and ranks 5th of the 81 islands on sizeversus by area.
Laid out flat, Thailand stretches about 1,650 km north to south and 881 km east to west; Baffin Island about 1,350 km by 1,100 km.
Wikidata’s published figure of 507,000 km² agrees with our measured 509,000 km², to within 2%.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Thailand	1.01×
Farther north	Baffin Island	53.3° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Baffin Island	7.3× against 1.1×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Thailand	Baffin Island
Belgium 30,700 km²	16.8×	16.6×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	2.11×	2.09×
Germany 358,000 km²	1.44×	1.42×
Japan 374,000 km²	1.38×	1.36×
France 548,000 km²	0.94×	0.93×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.16×	0.16×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.06×	0.06×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.05×	0.05×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.03×	0.03×

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

Side by side

	Thailand	Baffin Island
Is a	CountryAsia	Islandisland on sizeversus
Area, measured	514,000 km²199,000 mi²	509,000 km²196,000 mi²
Area, published	513,000 km²Wikidata	507,000 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	50th of 212countries	5th of 81islands
Latitude range	6°N to 20°N	62°N to 74°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 Canada contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Baffin Island. That is what its geometry says, and it is not a statement about who owns the water or where any border runs in it.

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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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