Autonomous community of Spain

Balearic Islands

Balearic Islands is an autonomous community of Spain. It covers about 5,120 km² (1,980 mi²), the 17th largest of the 19 autonomous communities and cities in Natural Earth’s file for Spain, and about the same size as Trinidad and Tobago. About 1.2 million people live there (Wikidata, 2022).

In area1.00×the size ofTrinidad and Tobago5,120 km² In people1.02×as many people asDjibouti1.2 million

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Area, measured	5,120 km²1,980 mi²
Official area	4,990 km²Wikidata · 2.5% below our measure
Share of Spain	1.0%of the area of the 19 autonomous communities and cities
Rank by area	17th of 19autonomous communities and cities of Spain
Population	1.2 millionWikidata, 2022 · the only figure Wikidata has; most units carry 2024
Density	230 people per km²
Capital	Palma
Latitude range	39°N to 40°N
Type	Autonomous communityES-IB

What the numbers say about Balearic Islands

Balearic Islands covers 1.0% of the area of Spain and ranks 12th of 19 by population, against 17th by area.
It would take 99.1 autonomous communities and cities the size of Balearic Islands to cover Spain.
The largest, Castile and León, is 18.5× the size of Balearic Islands; the smallest, Melilla, is 0.2% of it.
Closest in size within Spain: La Rioja (5,330 km², 1.04×) and Cantabria (5,350 km², 1.05×).
Counted as a country, Balearic Islands would be larger than 65 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 175th by area, between Trinidad and Tobago (5,120 km²) and Cape Verde (3,930 km²).
With 1.2 million people it would rank 161st of 238 by population.
Balearic Islands has 230 people per km², about the density of Nigeria, which has 233 per km².
That makes Balearic Islands the 7th most densely populated of the 19 autonomous communities and cities, 2.40× the average for Spain (96 per km²).
Wikidata holds no 2024 figure for Balearic Islands; the 2022 figure is the only one it has, so Balearic Islands is not counted the same way as the 18 autonomous communities and cities that carry 2024.
On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 40°N is drawn about 1.7× too large in area, so Balearic Islands looks bigger there than it is.
Laid out flat, Balearic Islands stretches about 159 km north to south and 268 km east to west.
Our measured 5,120 km² is 2.5% above Wikidata's official figure of 4,990 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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Sources and method

Outline: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain: the one province in the file that makes up this autonomous community, so nothing is joined.
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline, shown rounded. The region’s whole area is counted, every island included.
Official figures: Area, population and capital from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-12
Population: Wikidata, 2022. Spain’s units share the 2024 figures where Wikidata has them; the year is shown wherever the figure is.
Matching: Countries come from Natural Earth’s country file. Places whose status is contested and dependencies are never used as automatic matches. A region under 2,500 km² is matched against the small countries and island nations.
Data built: 2026-11-12

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