How big is it?

Tasmania is 64'519 km2 in land area with a population of 470'000 people.

By comparison:

Country Size in km2 Population Arable land
Tasmania 64'500 470'000 26.5%
Australia 7'680'000 18'300'000 6%
Austria 83'900 8'190'000 17%
Belgium 33'000 10'300'000 25%
Greece 132'000 10'700'000 22%
Switzerland 41'300 7'300'000 10%

Compared to western Europe, it is slightly smaller than Ireland, but lies between 41° to 43° of latitude, which compares to the latitude of Corsica.

To view its situation related to a map of Europe properly, it was drawn upside-down since the south coast is closest to the pole and hence colder.