Balearic Islands is 1.18× the size of Chonburi

What fits

• Chonburi is 85% of the size of Balearic Islands.
• Balearic Islands is larger by 784 km² (303 mi²), which is 18% of the area of Chonburi.
• Measured in Belgiums: Balearic Islands is about 0.17, Chonburi about 0.14.

How they differ

• Balearic Islands is larger, but Chonburi has the larger population: 1.6 million against 1.2 million, 1.33× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 362 in Chonburi against 230 in Balearic Islands: Chonburi is 1.57× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 9,770 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Balearic Islands at 40°N is drawn about 1.7× too large and Chonburi at 13°N about 1.1×, so the map shows Balearic Islands as 1.88× the size of Chonburi instead of 1.18×.
• Together Balearic Islands and Chonburi cover 9,450 km², close to the size of Lebanon (10,000 km², 5.9% bigger).
• The gap between them, 784 km², is about the size of Dominica (730 km²).
• At Chonburi's density, Balearic Islands would have 1.9 million people (it has 1.2 million). At Balearic Islands's density, Chonburi would have 996,000 (it has 1.6 million).
• Balearic Islands's centre is 26.4° of latitude, about 2,930 km, farther north than Chonburi's.
• Balearic Islands is the 17th largest of the 19 autonomous communities and cities of Spain and covers 1.0% of its area; it is the 7th most densely populated of them.
• Chonburi is the 48th largest of the 77 provinces of Thailand and covers 0.8% of its area; it is the 10th most densely populated of them.
• Balearic Islands lies about 26° of latitude (roughly 2,930 km) north of Chonburi.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Balearic Islands would have about 4,350 m² and each person in Chonburi about 2,770 m².
• Laid side by side, Balearic Islands and Chonburi would cover 9,450 km², 94% of the size of Lebanon.
• Together they have 2.7 million people, about as many people as Jamaica.

Side by side

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

• Our measured 5,120 km² is 2.5% above Wikidata's official figure of 4,990 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.
• Wikidata's official figure of 4,360 km² agrees with our measured area of 4,330 km², to within 2%.

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