Cantabria is 6.35× the size of Samut Sakhon

What fits

• Samut Sakhon fits inside Cantabria about 6.35 times by area.
• Cantabria is larger by 4,500 km² (1,740 mi²), which is 535% of the area of Samut Sakhon.
• Measured in Belgiums: Cantabria is about 0.17, Samut Sakhon about 0.03.

How they differ

• Cantabria also has the larger population: 592,000 against 586,000, 1.01× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 696 in Samut Sakhon against 111 in Cantabria: Samut Sakhon is 6.29× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 10,100 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Cantabria at 43°N is drawn about 1.9× too large and Samut Sakhon at 14°N about 1.1×, so the map shows Cantabria as 11.3× the size of Samut Sakhon instead of 6.35×.
• Together Cantabria and Samut Sakhon cover 6,190 km², close to the size of Palestine (6,070 km², 1.9% smaller).
• The gap between them, 4,500 km², is about the size of Trinidad and Tobago (5,120 km²).
• At Samut Sakhon's density, Cantabria would have 3.7 million people (it has 592,000). At Cantabria's density, Samut Sakhon would have 93,000 (it has 586,000).
• Cantabria's centre is 29.6° of latitude, about 3,290 km, farther north than Samut Sakhon's.
• Cantabria is the 15th largest of the 19 autonomous communities and cities of Spain and covers 1.1% of its area; it is the 10th most densely populated of them.
• Samut Sakhon is the 74th largest of the 77 provinces of Thailand and covers 0.2% of its area; it is the 6th most densely populated of them.
• Cantabria lies about 30° of latitude (roughly 3,290 km) north of Samut Sakhon.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Cantabria would have about 9,040 m² and each person in Samut Sakhon about 1,440 m².
• Laid side by side, Cantabria and Samut Sakhon would cover 6,190 km², 1.08× the size of Brunei.
• Together they have 1.2 million people, about as many people as Djibouti.
• Samut Sakhon is drawn from 27 points: at a size under 2,500 km² the outline is a sketch, so the overlap shows the proportions rather than the exact shape.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2024 and Wikidata 2020. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 5,320 km² agrees with our measured area of 5,350 km², to within 2%.
• Our measured 843 km² is 3.4% below Wikidata's official figure of 872 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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