Bali compared with Hawaii: area, population and density

Geography and shape

Bali Province is the island of Bali plus Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan and a few smaller islands, in the Indonesian archipelago just east of Java. Hawaii is a chain of volcanic islands in the middle of the North Pacific; its largest, Hawaiʻi Island, is by itself almost twice the size of Bali Province.

Population context

Bali Province has 4,461,270 people on 5,590 km², about 798 per km². Hawaii has an estimated 1,432,820 on 16,634 km² of land, about 86 per km². Bali holds about 3.1 times Hawaii’s population on about a third of its land.

Boundaries and definitions

Bali uses the province’s 2025 population figure and its statutory land area, which excludes 9,152.54 km² of coastal waters. Hawaii uses the Census Bureau’s Vintage 2025 estimate for 1 July 2025 and the state’s land area, which leaves out 11,777 km² of inland and coastal water. Neither figure is the main island alone.

Bali Province: Bali Province, not the main island alone. The area is the province's statutory land area, the sum of all 57 districts across its eight regencies and one city as fixed in the 2023 provincial spatial plan; it excludes the 9,152.54 km² of coastal waters the same plan assigns to the province. The population is the provincial figure for 2025, so the density shown is provincial. The province is larger than the main island because it also administers Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, Nusa Ceningan, Menjangan and Serangan — Nusa Penida district alone is 209.02 km², about 3.7% of the land. No Indonesian government body publishes a land area for the main island on its own, and figures circulated as the area of Pulau Bali are provincial totals under an island label. Official provincial areas also disagree by source, from 5,590.01 to 5,780.06 km²; this page names the basis it uses. The outline drawn here is the main island's coastline, because the mapped provincial boundary includes territorial waters and encloses roughly 21,000 km². Area and population are about two years apart.

Hawaii: The State of Hawaii: 16,634.44 km² of land and 1,432,820 residents. Area is the Census Bureau’s land area (ALAND) for the state in the 2025 Gazetteer; it excludes 11,777 km² of inland and coastal water, so the land-plus-water total is 28,412 km². Population is the Census Bureau’s Vintage 2025 resident estimate for 1 July 2025, not a census count. Hawaiʻi Island (Hawaii County) is about 63% of the land, while Honolulu County on Oʻahu holds about 69% of the residents. The outline is Natural Earth’s admin-1 polygon showing the eight main islands; the tiny Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, strung out nearly 2,000 km further northwest, are counted in the area but not drawn. The drawn islands measure about 1.5% more than the official land area. Hawaii keeps Hawaii–Aleutian Standard Time (UTC−10) all year and does not observe daylight saving time.