Total & land area: Guinea vs Niger size comparison [2026]

Niger is 5.15 times bigger by total area compared to Guinea: 489,191 sq mi vs 94,926 sq mi. Without inland water, the land area of Niger is 489,076 sq mi vs 94,873 sq mi for Guinea — a 5.16 times difference in territory size.

Guinea ranks 77/197 by total surface area vs 21/197 for Niger.
Guinea occupies 0.16% of the land mass of all countries, compared with 0.85% for Niger.
73.2% of Guinea's area is agricultural land vs 36.8% in Niger.
Guinea has 0.38% of the world's agricultural land area — Niger has 0.98%.
24.7% of Guinea is covered by forests, compared to 0.82% in Niger.
0.15% of the world's forests are in Guinea, and 0.03% are in Niger.

True size map comparison: Guinea vs Niger

See how Guinea and Niger 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

	Guinea	Niger
Total area	94,926 sq mi	489,191 sq mi
Size difference ratio	1	5.15
Total area rank	77/197	21/197
Share of all countries' surface area	0.05%	0.25%
Land area	94,873 sq mi	489,076 sq mi
Land area difference ratio	1	5.16
Land area rank	77/197	20/197
Share of all countries' land area	0.16%	0.85%
Population	14,754,785	27,032,412
Population density	162.9 ppl/mi²	59 ppl/mi²

Surface area by type

	Guinea	Niger
Forest area	23,433 sq mi	4,025 sq mi
Forest area as share of land	24.7%	0.82%
Forest area rank	68/196	124/196
World's forests share	0.15%	0.03%
Agricultural land area	69,475 sq mi	179,918 sq mi
Agricultural land share	73.2%	36.8%
Agricultural land area rank	52/194	19/194
Share of global agricultural land	0.38%	0.98%
Arable land	23,166 sq mi	68,340 sq mi
Arable land share	24.4%	14%
Arable land area rank	42/191	17/191
Permanent cropland	4,995 sq mi	450 sq mi
Permanent cropland share	5.27%	0.09%
Permanent cropland area rank	30/192	100/192
Water area	52.9 sq mi	115.8 sq mi
Water as share of total area	0.06%	0.02%
Water area rank	135/197	124/197
Roads length	n/a	11,774 mi
Land borders length	2,514 mi	3,625 mi
Coastline length	198.8 mi	0 mi
Share of marine protected waters	0.6%	n/a

Guinea vs Niger 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 Guinea and Niger 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.