Alaska is 1.22× the size of Pará

What fits

• Pará is 82% of the size of Alaska.
• Alaska is larger by 275,000 km² (106,000 mi²), which is 22% of the area of Pará.
• Measured in Belgiums: Alaska is about 49.1, Pará about 40.1.

How they differ

• Alaska is larger, but Pará has the larger population: 8.1 million against 733,000, 11.1× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 6.6 in Pará against 0.5 in Alaska: Pará is 13.5× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 10,900 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Alaska at 64°N is drawn about 5.2× too large and Pará at 4°S about 1.0×, so the map shows Alaska as 6.33× the size of Pará instead of 1.22×.
• Together Alaska and Pará cover 2,736,000 km², close to the size of Kazakhstan (2,714,000 km², 0.8% smaller).
• The gap between them, 275,000 km², is about the size of Burkina Faso (273,000 km²).
• At Pará's density, Alaska would have 9.9 million people (it has 733,000). At Alaska's density, Pará would have 600,000 (it has 8.1 million).
• Alaska's centre is 68.0° of latitude, about 7,560 km, farther north than Pará'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.
• Pará is the 2nd largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 15% of its area; it is the 21st most densely populated of them.
• Alaska lies about 68° of latitude (roughly 7,560 km) north of Pará, on the other side of the equator.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Alaska would have about 2,052,560 m² and each person in Pará about 151,560 m².
• Laid side by side, Alaska and Pará would cover 2,736,000 km², about the same size as Kazakhstan.
• Together they have 8.9 million people, about as many people as Papua New Guinea.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2022. 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 1,246,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,231,000 km², to within 2%.

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