Food & Drink

How big is a pizza?

A typical pizza is about 30 cm (11.8 in) across.

What is measured: medium round pizza, diameter

Pizza (30 cm) drawn to scale beside a smartphone (14.7 cm) and a bowling pin (38.1 cm)
Drawn to scale, from left to right: Smartphone (14.7 cm), Pizza (30 cm) and Bowling pin (38.1 cm).

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How big is that, really?

  • About 79% of the height of a bowling pin
  • About 2× the height of a smartphone
  • About 3.5× the length of a credit card
  • As wide as about 13 large coins side by side
  • About 18% of the height of an adult person

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Facts about Pizza

Neapolitan pizza-making was added to UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2017.

Source: UNESCO, “The Art of Neapolitan ‘Pizzaiuolo’”; Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Pizza”

Food & Drink

NameSizeCompared with Pizza
Soda can12 cm (4.72 in)0.4×
Coconut15 cm (5.91 in)0.5×
Pancake15 cm (5.91 in)0.5×
Durian25 cm (9.84 in)0.83×
Pizza30 cm (11.8 in)this page
Pineapple30 cm (11.8 in)same size
Watermelon30 cm (11.8 in)same size
Cabbage30 cm (11.8 in)same size
Pumpkin40 cm (1 ft 4 in)1.3×
Parmesan cheese wheel45 cm (1 ft 6 in)1.5×

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Which is bigger: Pizza or Durian?

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