Northern Territory

Facts

What the numbers say about Northern Territory

• Northern Territory covers 18% of the area of Australia and ranks 8th of 8 by population, against 3rd by area.
• It would take 5.70 states and territories the size of Northern Territory to cover Australia.
• The largest, Western Australia, is 1.87× the size of Northern Territory; the smallest, Australian Capital Territory, is 0.2% of it.
• Closest in size within Australia: Queensland (1,730,000 km², 1.28×) and South Australia (984,000 km², 1.37×).
• Counted as a country, Northern Territory would be larger than 220 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 20th by area, between Mongolia (1,565,000 km²) and Peru (1,290,000 km²).
• With 262,000 people it would rank 182nd of 238 by population.
• Northern Territory has 0.2 people per km².
• That makes Northern Territory the 8th most densely populated of the 8 states and territories, 5.5% of the average for Australia (3.6 per km²).
• Northern Territory has 1,055× the room per person of Australian Capital Territory, the most crowded of the 8: 0.2 against 205 people per km².
• Northern Territory lies at 19°S, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.1×.
• Laid out flat, Northern Territory stretches about 1,660 km north to south and 963 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 1,348,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,348,000 km², to within 2%.

Beside the regions of other countries

The closest region by area and by people in each of the other countries that have regional pages here, within a factor of 2. All 395 regions side by side.

• ChinaAreaInner Mongolia1.18× · 1,144,000 km²Peoplenone within 2×
• United StatesAreaAlaska90% · 1,505,000 km²Peoplenone within 2×
• IndiaAreanone within 2×PeopleLadakh0.96× · 274,000 (2011)
• FranceAreanone within 2×PeopleFrench Guiana0.91× · 288,000 (2022)
• ItalyAreanone within 2×PeopleMolise86% · 304,000 (2019)
• SpainAreanone within 2×PeopleLa Rioja81% · 324,000 (2024)
• BrazilAreaPará1.10× · 1,231,000 km²Peoplenone within 2×
• CanadaAreaNorthwest Territories1.00× · 1,348,000 km²PeoplePrince Edward Island1.70× · 154,000 (2021)
• ThailandAreanone within 2×PeopleNakhon Nayok1.01× · 260,000 (2020)

Compare Northern Territory

• Quebec vs Northern Territory
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• Northern Territory vs Peru
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• Northern Territory vs Vanuatu
• Northern Territory vs Northwest Territories
• Northern Territory vs Inner Mongolia
• Northern Territory vs Pará
• Northern Territory vs Nakhon Nayok