Campeche is 1.20× the size of Lower Saxony

What fits

• Lower Saxony is 83% of the size of Campeche.
• Campeche is larger by 9,550 km² (3,690 mi²), which is 20% of the area of Lower Saxony.
• Measured in Belgiums: Campeche is about 1.86, Lower Saxony about 1.55.

How they differ

• Campeche is larger, but Lower Saxony has the larger population: 7.9 million against 928,000, 8.56× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 167 in Lower Saxony against 16 in Campeche: Lower Saxony is 10.3× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 8,960 km apart.
• On a standard web map Lower Saxony looks larger than Campeche: Campeche at 19°N is drawn about 1.1× too large and Lower Saxony at 53°N about 2.7×, so the map shows Lower Saxony as 2.04× the size of Campeche, when Campeche is 1.20× the size of Lower Saxony.
• Together Campeche and Lower Saxony cover 105,000 km², close to the size of Iceland (102,000 km², 2.2% smaller).
• The gap between them, 9,550 km², is about the size of Lebanon (10,000 km²).
• At Lower Saxony's density, Campeche would have 9.5 million people (it has 928,000). At Campeche's density, Lower Saxony would have 773,000 (it has 7.9 million).
• Lower Saxony's centre is 33.9° of latitude, about 3,770 km, farther north than Campeche's.
• Campeche is the 18th largest of the 32 states of Mexico and covers 2.9% of its area; it is the 28th most densely populated of them.
• 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 34° of latitude (roughly 3,770 km) north of Campeche.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Campeche would have about 61,550 m² and each person in Lower Saxony about 5,990 m².
• Laid side by side, Campeche and Lower Saxony would cover 105,000 km², about the same size as Iceland.
• 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).

• Wikidata's official figure of 57,500 km² agrees with our measured area of 57,100 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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