Colombia is 1.05× the size of Ontario

What fits

• Ontario is 95% of the size of Colombia.
• Colombia is larger by 57,500 km² (22,200 mi²), which is 5.3% of the area of Ontario.
• Measured in Belgiums: Colombia is about 37.0, Ontario about 35.1.

How they differ

• Colombia also has the larger population: 52.3 million against 14.2 million, 3.68× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 46 in Colombia against 13 in Ontario: Colombia is 3.49× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 5,250 km apart.
• On a standard web map Ontario looks larger than Colombia: Colombia at 4°N is drawn about 1.0× too large and Ontario at 50°N about 2.4×, so the map shows Ontario as 2.28× the size of Colombia, when Colombia is 1.05× the size of Ontario.
• Together Colombia and Ontario cover 2,213,000 km², close to the size of Greenland (2,154,000 km², 2.6% smaller).
• The gap between them, 57,500 km², is about the size of Togo (56,900 km²).
• At Ontario's density, Colombia would have 15.0 million people (it has 52.3 million). At Colombia's density, Ontario would have 49.7 million (it has 14.2 million).
• Ontario's centre is 46.0° of latitude, about 5,120 km, farther north than Colombia's.
• Colombia ranks 27th of 246 countries and territories by area.
• Ontario is the 4th largest of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and covers 11% of its area; it is the 3rd most densely populated of them.
• Ontario lies about 46° of latitude (roughly 5,120 km) north of Colombia.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Colombia would have about 21,700 m² and each person in Ontario about 75,760 m².
• Laid side by side, Colombia and Ontario would cover 2,213,000 km², about the same size as Greenland.
• Together they have 66.5 million people, about as many people as Thailand.
• Counted as a country, Ontario would rank 29th by area and 76th by population.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2023 and Wikidata 2021. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 1,142,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,135,000 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 1,076,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,078,000 km², to within 2%.

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