Israel Compared in Numbers

ISRAEL SIZE COMPARISONS

Table

Israel Compared in Numbers

Area of the sixteen places on the comparison maps, and how many times larger each is than Israel. The last rows compare Israel with the whole Arab League and Iran. The map ratio is rounded and compares each place with Israel with Judea and Samaria.

PLACE

AREA,

KM

AREA, SQ

MI

TIMES ISRAEL

TIMES ISRAEL WITH JUDEA

AND SAMARIA

MAP RATIO SOURCE

Israel 21,937 8,470 1.0 79% CIA World Factbook

Judea and Samaria 5,860 2,263 27% 21% CIA World Factbook

Israel with Judea and Samaria 27,797 10,732 1.3 1.0 1:1 Sum of the two above

UNITED STATES

New Jersey 22,591 8,722 1.0 81% 1:1 US Census Bureau, 2010

New York 141,297 54,555 6.4 5.1 5:1 US Census Bureau, 2010

Texas 695,662 268,596 30:1 US Census Bureau, 2010

California 423,967 163,694 20:1 US Census Bureau, 2010

EUROPE

England 132,932 51,325 6.1 4.8 5:1 Wikipedia, to verify against ONS

France 551,500 212,935 20:1 CIA World Factbook, metropolitan France

Germany 357,022 137,847 10:1 CIA World Factbook

Spain 505,370 195,124 20:1 CIA World Factbook

ASIA

Russia 17,098,242 6,601,663 600:1 CIA World Factbook

India 3,287,263 1,269,218 100:1 CIA World Factbook

China 9,596,960 3,705,404 300:1 CIA World Factbook

Iran 1,648,195 636,371 60:1 CIA World Factbook

AFRICA, AUSTRALIA AND SOUTH AMERICA

South Africa 1,219,090 470,693 40:1 CIA World Factbook

Australia 7,741,220 2,988,900 300:1 CIA World Factbook

Egypt 1,001,450 386,662 40:1 CIA World Factbook

Brazil 8,515,770 3,287,955 300:1 CIA World Factbook

ISRAEL AGAINST ALL THE OTHERS

Arab League, 22 members 13,410,804 5,177,937 CIA World Factbook, sum

Iran 1,648,195 636,371 CIA World Factbook

Arab League and Iran combined 15,058,999 5,814,308 Sum of the two above

Sources. Areas are total areas, including inland water. CIA World Factbook, Geography, Area, total, for each country. The Factbook was retired by the CIA on 4 February 2026, so the figures are the last published edition, read from the public factbook.json archive of its data. Israel is the Factbook entry for Israel. The Arab League total sums the 22 members, with the West Bank and the Gaza Strip counted together as the League does. Judea and Samaria is the Factbook entry for the territory, listed there under another name, and its figure includes the Latrun Salient and the northwest quarter of the Dead Sea. The France figure is metropolitan France only. The Spain figure includes the Balearic and Canary Islands. US states: US Census Bureau, State Area Measurements and Internal Point Coordinates, 2010. England: Wikipedia infobox, to be checked against the ONS Standard Area Measurements before print. Outlines on the maps: Natural Earth 1:10m Admin 0 (public domain), and for US states the us-states GeoJSON in the PublicaMundi Mapping I repository, from US Census boundary data. The maps use simplified outlines, so areas measured from them differ slightly from these official totals. Square miles are km² divided by 2.59.

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