Total & land area: Peru vs Vatican size comparison [2026]

Peru is 2,622,890 times bigger by total area compared to the Vatican: 496,225 sq mi vs 0.19 sq mi. Without inland water, the land area of Peru is 494,211 sq mi vs 0.17 sq mi for the Vatican — a 2,909,091 times difference in territory size.

Peru ranks 19/197 by total surface area vs 197/197 for the Vatican.
Peru occupies 0.86% of the land mass of all countries, compared with 0.0000003% for the Vatican.

True size map comparison: Peru vs Vatican

See how Peru and the Vatican 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

	Peru	Vatican
Total area	496,225 sq mi	0.19 sq mi
Size difference ratio	2,622,890	1
Total area rank	19/197	197/197
Share of all countries' surface area	0.25%	0.0000001%
Land area	494,211 sq mi	0.17 sq mi
Land area difference ratio	2,909,091	1
Land area rank	19/197	197/197
Share of all countries' land area	0.86%	0.0000003%
Population	34,217,848	1,000
Population density	70.7 ppl/mi²	5,493 ppl/mi²

Surface area by type

	Peru	Vatican
Forest area	277,267 sq mi	n/a
Forest area as share of land	56.1%	n/a
Forest area rank	10/196	n/a
World's forests share	1.78%	n/a
Agricultural land area	94,153 sq mi	n/a
Agricultural land share	19.1%	n/a
Agricultural land area rank	46/194	n/a
Share of global agricultural land	0.51%	n/a
Arable land	15,129 sq mi	n/a
Arable land share	3.06%	n/a
Arable land area rank	60/191	n/a
Permanent cropland	8,804 sq mi	n/a
Permanent cropland share	1.78%	n/a
Permanent cropland area rank	18/192	n/a
Water area	2,014 sq mi	0.02 sq mi
Water as share of total area	0.41%	10.2%
Water area rank	64/197	167/197
Roads length	109,106 mi	5.59 mi
Land borders length	4,388 mi	2.11 mi
Coastline length	1,500 mi	0 mi
Share of marine protected waters	7.9%	n/a

Peru vs Vatican 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 Peru and the Vatican 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.