Belarus is 1.14× the size of North Dakota

What fits

• North Dakota is 88% of the size of Belarus.
• Belarus is larger by 24,800 km² (9,560 mi²), which is 14% of the area of North Dakota.
• Measured in Belgiums: Belarus is about 6.77, North Dakota about 5.96.

How they differ

• Belarus also has the larger population: 9.1 million against 779,000, 11.6× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 44 in Belarus against 4.3 in North Dakota: Belarus is 10.2× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 7,780 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Belarus at 54°N is drawn about 2.8× too large and North Dakota at 47°N about 2.2×, so the map shows Belarus as 1.47× the size of North Dakota instead of 1.14×.
• Together Belarus and North Dakota cover 390,000 km², close to the size of Zimbabwe (389,000 km², 0.2% smaller).
• The gap between them, 24,800 km², is about the size of Rwanda (25,300 km²).
• At North Dakota's density, Belarus would have 885,000 people (it has 9.1 million). At Belarus's density, North Dakota would have 8.0 million (it has 779,000).
• Belarus's centre is 6.1° of latitude, about 680 km, farther north than North Dakota's.
• Belarus ranks 86th of 246 countries and territories by area.
• North Dakota is the 18th largest of the 51 states and districts of the United States and covers 1.9% of its area; it is the 48th most densely populated of them.
• Belarus lies about 6° of latitude (roughly 675 km) north of North Dakota.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Belarus would have about 22,910 m² and each person in North Dakota about 234,560 m².
• Laid side by side, Belarus and North Dakota would cover 390,000 km², about the same size as Zimbabwe.
• Together they have 9.8 million people, about as many people as the United Arab Emirates.
• Counted as a country, North Dakota would rank 89th by area and 166th by population.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2026 and Wikidata 2020. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 208,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 207,000 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 183,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 183,000 km², to within 2%.

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