Vanuatu is 1.10× the size of Qatar

Vanuatu covers about 12,300 km² (4,750 mi²) and Qatar about 11,200 km² (4,310 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

12,300km²Vanuatu
11,200km²Qatar

100 km

Vanuatu
Qatar

What fits

Qatar is 91% of the size of Vanuatu.
Vanuatu is larger by 1,150 km² (443 mi²), which is 10% of the area of Qatar.
Measured in Belgiums: Vanuatu is about 0.40, Qatar about 0.36.

How they differ

Vanuatu is larger, but Qatar has the larger population: 2.6 million against 300,000, 8.80× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 237 in Qatar against 24 in Vanuatu: Qatar is 9.70× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 13,400 km apart.
On a standard web map Qatar looks larger than Vanuatu: Vanuatu at 16°S is drawn about 1.1× too large and Qatar at 25°N about 1.2×, so the map shows Qatar as 1.02× the size of Vanuatu, when Vanuatu is 1.10× the size of Qatar.
Together Vanuatu and Qatar cover 23,400 km², close to the size of Belize (22,300 km², 4.9% smaller).
The gap between them, 1,150 km², is about the size of São Tomé and Príncipe (1,040 km²).
At Qatar's density, Vanuatu would have 2.9 million people (it has 300,000). At Vanuatu's density, Qatar would have 272,000 (it has 2.6 million).
Qatar's centre is 41.5° of latitude, about 4,620 km, farther north than Vanuatu's.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Vanuatu	1.10×
More people	Qatar	8.80×
More crowded	Qatar	9.70×
Farther north	Qatar	41.5° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Qatar	1.2× against 1.1×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Vanuatu	Qatar
Belgium 30,700 km²	0.40×	0.36×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.05×	0.05×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.03×	0.03×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.03×	0.03×
France 548,000 km²	0.02×	0.02×
India 3,151,000 km²	1 in 256	1 in 283
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	1 in 689	1 in 760
United States 9,447,000 km²	1 in 768	1 in 847
Russia 16,980,000 km²	1 in 1,381	1 in 1,523

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

Side by side

	Vanuatu	Qatar
Area, main territory	12,300 km²4,750 mi²	11,200 km²4,310 mi²
Population	300,000Wikidata, 2020	2.6 millionWikidata, 2017
Density	24 per km²	237 per km²
Official area	12,200 km²Wikidata	11,400 km²Wikidata
Capital	Port Vila	Doha
Latitude range	20°S to 13°S	25°N to 26°N
Continent	Oceania	Asia

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2017, covering each whole country. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 12,200 km² agrees with our measured area of 12,300 km², to within 2%.
Our measured 11,200 km² is 2.5% below Wikidata's official figure of 11,400 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 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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