Austria is 1.76× the size of Lower Saxony

What fits

• Lower Saxony is 57% of the size of Austria.
• Austria is larger by 36,400 km² (14,100 mi²), which is 76% of the area of Lower Saxony.
• Measured in Belgiums: Austria is about 2.74, Lower Saxony about 1.55.

How they differ

• Austria also has the larger population: 9.0 million against 7.9 million, 1.13× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 167 in Lower Saxony against 107 in Austria: Lower Saxony is 1.56× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 674 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Austria at 48°N is drawn about 2.2× too large and Lower Saxony at 53°N about 2.7×, so the map shows Austria as 1.42× the size of Lower Saxony instead of 1.76×.
• Together Austria and Lower Saxony cover 132,000 km², close to the size of Greece (131,000 km², 0.2% smaller).
• The gap between them, 36,400 km², is about the size of Taiwan (36,200 km²).
• At Lower Saxony's density, Austria would have 14.0 million people (it has 9.0 million). At Austria's density, Lower Saxony would have 5.1 million (it has 7.9 million).
• Lower Saxony's centre is 5.2° of latitude, about 570 km, farther north than Austria's.
• Austria ranks 116th of 246 countries and territories by area.
• Lower Saxony is the 2nd largest of the 16 states of Germany and covers 13% of its area; it is the 12th most densely populated of them.
• Lower Saxony lies about 5° of latitude (roughly 575 km) north of Austria.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Austria would have about 9,350 m² and each person in Lower Saxony about 5,990 m².
• Laid side by side, Austria and Lower Saxony would cover 132,000 km², about the same size as Greece.
• Together they have 16.9 million people, about as many people as Ecuador.
• Counted as a country, Lower Saxony would rank 132nd by area and 101st by population.

Side by side

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

• Wikidata's official figure of 83,900 km² agrees with our measured area of 84,000 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 47,600 km² agrees with our measured area of 47,600 km², to within 2%.

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