Country size comparison
compared to
Ireland is about 3.5 times smaller than United Kingdom.
United Kingdom is approximately 243,610 sq km, while Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, making Ireland 28.85% the size of United Kingdom. Meanwhile, the population of United Kingdom is ~67.8 million people (62.5 million fewer people live in Ireland).
This to-scale comparison of
United Kingdom
vs.
Ireland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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