Country size comparison

compared to

District of Columbia is about 397 times smaller than Ireland.

Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, while District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, making District of Columbia 0.25% the size of Ireland. Meanwhile, the population of Ireland is ~5.3 million people (4.7 million fewer people live in District of Columbia).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ireland vs. District of Columbia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.