Total & land area: Congo vs Philippines size comparison

The Philippines is slightly bigger by total area compared to the Congo: 132,606 sq mi vs 132,047 sq mi. Without inland water, the land area of the Congo is 131,854 sq mi vs 115,124 sq mi for the Philippines — a 1.15 times difference in territory size.

The Congo ranks 65/197 by total surface area vs 64/197 for the Philippines.
The Congo occupies 0.23% of the land mass of all countries, compared with 0.2% for the Philippines.
31.2% of the Congo's area is agricultural land vs 42.7% in the Philippines.
The Congo has 0.22% of the world's agricultural land area — the Philippines has 0.27%.
64.1% of the Congo is covered by forests, compared to 24.5% in the Philippines.
0.54% of the world's forests are in the Congo, and 0.18% are in the Philippines.

True size map comparison: Congo vs Philippines

See how the Congo and the Philippines 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

	Congo	Philippines
Total area	132,047 sq mi	132,606 sq mi
Size difference ratio	1	1
Total area rank	65/197	64/197
Share of all countries' surface area	0.07%	0.07%
Land area	131,854 sq mi	115,124 sq mi
Land area difference ratio	1.15	1
Land area rank	64/197	71/197
Share of all countries' land area	0.23%	0.2%
Population	6,332,961	115,843,670
Population density	50.4 ppl/mi²	1,023 ppl/mi²

Surface area by type

	Congo	Philippines
Forest area	84,560 sq mi	28,159 sq mi
Forest area as share of land	64.1%	24.5%
Forest area rank	28/196	62/196
World's forests share	0.54%	0.18%
Agricultural land area	41,125 sq mi	49,122 sq mi
Agricultural land share	31.2%	42.7%
Agricultural land area rank	69/194	64/194
Share of global agricultural land	0.22%	0.27%
Arable land	2,124 sq mi	21,583 sq mi
Arable land share	1.61%	18.7%
Arable land area rank	122/191	44/191
Permanent cropland	392 sq mi	21,748 sq mi
Permanent cropland share	0.3%	18.9%
Permanent cropland area rank	102/192	9/192
Water area	193.1 sq mi	17,482 sq mi
Water as share of total area	0.15%	13.2%
Water area rank	116/197	12/197
Roads length	14,493 mi	134,457 mi
Land borders length	3,451 mi	0 mi
Coastline length	105 mi	22,549 mi
Share of marine protected waters	3.5%	1.6%

Congo vs Philippines 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 the Congo and the Philippines 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.