Total & land area: Brunei vs Guatemala size comparison

Guatemala is 18.9 times bigger by total area compared to Brunei: 42,042 sq mi vs 2,226 sq mi. Without inland water, the land area of Guatemala is 41,375 sq mi vs 2,035 sq mi for Brunei — a 20.3 times difference in territory size.

Brunei ranks 165/197 by total surface area vs 105/197 for Guatemala.
Brunei occupies 0.004% of the land mass of all countries, compared with 0.07% for Guatemala.
2.54% of Brunei's area is agricultural land vs 43% in Guatemala.
Brunei has 0.0003% of the world's agricultural land area — Guatemala has 0.1%.
72.1% of Brunei is covered by forests, compared to 32.6% in Guatemala.
0.009% of the world's forests are in Brunei, and 0.09% are in Guatemala.

True size map comparison: Brunei vs Guatemala

See how Brunei and Guatemala compare in true size on the map. Drag the outlines to different latitudes to see how the Mercator projection affects their apparent size.

Total size and land area comparison

	Brunei	Guatemala
Total area	2,226 sq mi	42,042 sq mi
Size difference ratio	1	18.9
Total area rank	165/197	105/197
Share of all countries' surface area	0.001%	0.02%
Land area	2,035 sq mi	41,375 sq mi
Land area difference ratio	1	20.3
Land area rank	165/197	102/197
Share of all countries' land area	0.004%	0.07%
Population	462,721	18,406,359
Population density	231 ppl/mi²	459 ppl/mi²

Surface area by type

	Brunei	Guatemala
Forest area	1,467 sq mi	13,487 sq mi
Forest area as share of land	72.1%	32.6%
Forest area rank	144/196	84/196
World's forests share	0.009%	0.09%
Agricultural land area	51.7 sq mi	17,807 sq mi
Agricultural land share	2.54%	43%
Agricultural land area rank	175/194	91/194
Share of global agricultural land	0.0003%	0.1%
Arable land	15.4 sq mi	6,000 sq mi
Arable land share	0.76%	14.5%
Arable land area rank	175/191	90/191
Permanent cropland	23.2 sq mi	4,568 sq mi
Permanent cropland share	1.14%	11%
Permanent cropland area rank	159/192	32/192
Water area	191.2 sq mi	668 sq mi
Water as share of total area	8.59%	1.59%
Water area rank	117/197	98/197
Roads length	1,849 mi	10,949 mi
Land borders length	165.3 mi	1,036 mi
Coastline length	100 mi	248.5 mi
Share of marine protected waters	0%	0.9%

Brunei vs Guatemala size on the map

Data sources: World Bank | Agriculture & Rural Development (2026, retrieved 2026-04-06).

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The map above outlines the borders of Brunei and Guatemala but is not accurate for size comparison because it's a 2d map with Mercator projection that distorts territories near the poles. The farther a country is from the equator, the more magnified it appears. More about country size projections.