Country size comparison
compared to
Ireland is about 2.3 times bigger than Belgium.
Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, while Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, making Ireland 130% larger than Belgium. Meanwhile, the population of Belgium is ~11.8 million people (6.6 million fewer people live in Ireland).
This to-scale comparison of
Belgium
vs.
Ireland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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