Country size comparison

compared to

Italy is about 1.7 times smaller than Spain.

Spain is approximately 505,370 sq km, while Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, making Italy 59.63% the size of Spain. Meanwhile, the population of Spain is ~47.2 million people (13.9 million more people live in Italy).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Spain vs. Italy uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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