United Kingdom is 7.43× the size of Guinea-Bissau

United Kingdom covers about 244,000 km² (94,100 mi²) and Guinea-Bissau about 32,800 km² (12,700 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

244,000km²United Kingdom
32,800km²Guinea-Bissau

200 km

United Kingdom
Guinea-Bissau

What fits

Guinea-Bissau fits inside United Kingdom about 7.43 times by area.
United Kingdom is larger by 211,000 km² (81,400 mi²), which is 643% of the area of Guinea-Bissau.
Measured in Belgiums: United Kingdom is about 7.95, Guinea-Bissau about 1.07.

How they differ

United Kingdom also has the larger population: 67.3 million against 1.9 million, 36.2× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 276 in United Kingdom against 57 in Guinea-Bissau: United Kingdom is 4.87× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 4,790 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: United Kingdom at 54°N is drawn about 2.9× too large and Guinea-Bissau at 12°N about 1.0×, so the map shows United Kingdom as 20.6× the size of Guinea-Bissau instead of 7.43×.
Together United Kingdom and Guinea-Bissau cover 277,000 km², close to the size of Burkina Faso (273,000 km², 1.4% smaller).
The gap between them, 211,000 km², is about the size of Guyana (211,000 km²).
At Guinea-Bissau's density, United Kingdom would have 13.8 million people (it has 67.3 million). At United Kingdom's density, Guinea-Bissau would have 9.1 million (it has 1.9 million).
United Kingdom's centre is 42.0° of latitude, about 4,670 km, farther north than Guinea-Bissau's.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	United Kingdom	7.43×
More people	United Kingdom	36.2×
More crowded	United Kingdom	4.87×
Farther north	United Kingdom	42.0° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	United Kingdom	2.9× against 1.0×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	United Kingdom	Guinea-Bissau
Belgium 30,700 km²	7.95×	1.07×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.68×	0.09×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.65×	0.09×
France 548,000 km²	0.44×	0.06×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.08×	0.01×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.03×	1 in 258
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.03×	1 in 288
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.01×	1 in 517

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

Side by side

	United Kingdom	Guinea-Bissau
Area, main territory	244,000 km²94,100 mi²	32,800 km²12,700 mi²
Population	67.3 millionWikidata, 2021	1.9 millionWikidata, 2017
Density	276 per km²	57 per km²
Official area	242,000 km²Wikidata	36,100 km²Wikidata
Capital	London	Bissau
Latitude range	50°N to 61°N	11°N to 13°N
Continent	Europe	Africa

Population: Wikidata 2021 and Wikidata 2017, covering each whole country. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 242,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 244,000 km², to within 2%.
Our measured 32,800 km² is 9.1% below Wikidata's official figure of 36,100 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, public domain
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. Main territory: the largest landmass and every part within 1,000 km of it.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded. Comparisons use main-territory area.
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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