Total & land area: Comoros vs Guatemala size comparison

Guatemala is 53.5 times bigger by total area compared to Comoros: 42,042 sq mi vs 785 sq mi. Without inland water, the land area of Guatemala is 41,375 sq mi vs 719 sq mi for Comoros — a 57.6 times difference in territory size.

Comoros ranks 171/197 by total surface area vs 105/197 for Guatemala.
Comoros occupies 0.001% of the land mass of all countries, compared with 0.07% for Guatemala.
71.5% of Comoros' area is agricultural land vs 43% in Guatemala.
Comoros has 0.003% of the world's agricultural land area — Guatemala has 0.1%.
17% of Comoros is covered by forests, compared to 32.6% in Guatemala.
0.0008% of the world's forests are in Comoros, and 0.09% are in Guatemala.

True size map comparison: Comoros vs Guatemala

See how Comoros 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

	Comoros	Guatemala
Total area	785 sq mi	42,042 sq mi
Size difference ratio	1	53.5
Total area rank	171/197	105/197
Share of all countries' surface area	0.0004%	0.02%
Land area	719 sq mi	41,375 sq mi
Land area difference ratio	1	57.6
Land area rank	171/197	102/197
Share of all countries' land area	0.001%	0.07%
Population	866,628	18,406,359
Population density	1,252 ppl/mi²	459 ppl/mi²

Surface area by type

	Comoros	Guatemala
Forest area	122 sq mi	13,487 sq mi
Forest area as share of land	17%	32.6%
Forest area rank	170/196	84/196
World's forests share	0.0008%	0.09%
Agricultural land area	514 sq mi	17,807 sq mi
Agricultural land share	71.5%	43%
Agricultural land area rank	159/194	91/194
Share of global agricultural land	0.003%	0.1%
Arable land	251 sq mi	6,000 sq mi
Arable land share	34.9%	14.5%
Arable land area rank	154/191	90/191
Permanent cropland	204.6 sq mi	4,568 sq mi
Permanent cropland share	28.5%	11%
Permanent cropland area rank	122/192	32/192
Water area	66.8 sq mi	668 sq mi
Water as share of total area	8.51%	1.59%
Water area rank	131/197	98/197
Roads length	547 mi	10,949 mi
Land borders length	0 mi	1,036 mi
Coastline length	211.3 mi	248.5 mi
Share of marine protected waters	0.4%	0.9%

Comoros 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 Comoros 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.