Amazonas is 1.04× the size of Alaska

What fits

• Alaska is 96% of the size of Amazonas.
• Amazonas is larger by 60,100 km² (23,200 mi²), which is 4.0% of the area of Alaska.
• Measured in Belgiums: Amazonas is about 51.0, Alaska about 49.1.

How they differ

• Amazonas also has the larger population: 3.9 million against 733,000, 5.37× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 2.5 in Amazonas against 0.5 in Alaska: Amazonas is 5.17× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 10,300 km apart.
• On a standard web map Alaska looks larger than Amazonas: Amazonas at 4°S is drawn about 1.0× too large and Alaska at 64°N about 5.2×, so the map shows Alaska as 4.97× the size of Amazonas, when Amazonas is 1.04× the size of Alaska.
• Together Amazonas and Alaska cover 3,071,000 km², close to the size of India (3,151,000 km², 2.6% bigger).
• The gap between them, 60,100 km², is about the size of Togo (56,900 km²).
• At Alaska's density, Amazonas would have 763,000 people (it has 3.9 million). At Amazonas's density, Alaska would have 3.8 million (it has 733,000).
• Alaska's centre is 68.2° of latitude, about 7,580 km, farther north than Amazonas's.
• Amazonas is the largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 18% of its area; it is the 27th most densely populated of them.
• 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.
• Alaska lies about 68° of latitude (roughly 7,580 km) north of Amazonas, on the other side of the equator.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Amazonas would have about 397,150 m² and each person in Alaska about 2,052,560 m².
• Laid side by side, Amazonas and Alaska would cover 3,071,000 km², about the same size as India.
• Together they have 4.7 million people, about as many people as Mauritania.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2020. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 1,559,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,565,000 km², to within 2%.
• 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.

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