Alaska is 1.12× the size of Northwest Territories

What fits

• Northwest Territories is 90% of the size of Alaska.
• Alaska is larger by 157,000 km² (60,600 mi²), which is 12% of the area of Northwest Territories.
• Measured in Belgiums: Alaska is about 49.1, Northwest Territories about 44.0.

How they differ

• Alaska also has the larger population: 733,000 against 41,000, 17.9× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 0.5 in Alaska against 0.0 in Northwest Territories: Alaska is 16.0× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 1,600 km apart.
• On a standard web map Northwest Territories looks larger than Alaska: Alaska at 64°N is drawn about 5.2× too large and Northwest Territories at 66°N about 5.9×, so the map shows Northwest Territories as 1.02× the size of Alaska, when Alaska is 1.12× the size of Northwest Territories.
• Together Alaska and Northwest Territories cover 2,854,000 km², close to the size of Argentina (2,783,000 km², 2.5% smaller).
• The gap between them, 157,000 km², is about the size of Tunisia (157,000 km²).
• At Northwest Territories's density, Alaska would have 46,000 people (it has 733,000). At Alaska's density, Northwest Territories would have 657,000 (it has 41,000).
• Northwest Territories's centre is 1.8° of latitude, about 200 km, farther north than Alaska's.
• Alaska is the largest of the 51 states and districts of the United States and covers 16% of its area; it is the 51st most densely populated of them.
• Northwest Territories is the 3rd largest of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and covers 14% of its area; it is the 12th most densely populated of them.
• Both lie at about the same latitude, 64°N and 66°N.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Alaska would have about 2,052,560 m² and each person in Northwest Territories about 32,831,160 m².
• Laid side by side, Alaska and Northwest Territories would cover 2,854,000 km², about the same size as Argentina.
• Together they have 774,000 people, about as many people as Bhutan.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2021. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Our measured 1,505,000 km² is 12% below Wikidata's official figure of 1,718,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.
• Wikidata's official figure of 1,346,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,348,000 km², to within 2%.

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