Cyprus is 6.00× the size of Samut Prakan

What fits

• Samut Prakan fits inside Cyprus about 6.00 times by area.
• Cyprus is larger by 4,500 km² (1,740 mi²), which is 500% of the area of Samut Prakan.
• Measured in Belgiums: Cyprus is about 0.18, Samut Prakan about 0.03.

How they differ

• Cyprus is larger, but Samut Prakan has the larger population: 1.4 million against 1.3 million, 1.00× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 1,502 in Samut Prakan against 249 in Cyprus: Samut Prakan is 6.03× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 7,130 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Cyprus at 35°N is drawn about 1.5× too large and Samut Prakan at 14°N about 1.1×, so the map shows Cyprus as 8.43× the size of Samut Prakan instead of 6.00×.
• Together Cyprus and Samut Prakan cover 6,290 km², close to the size of Palestine (6,070 km², 3.5% smaller).
• The gap between them, 4,500 km², is about the size of Trinidad and Tobago (5,120 km²).
• At Samut Prakan's density, Cyprus would have 8.1 million people (it has 1.3 million). At Cyprus's density, Samut Prakan would have 224,000 (it has 1.4 million).
• Cyprus's centre is 21.3° of latitude, about 2,370 km, farther north than Samut Prakan's.
• Cyprus ranks 174th of 246 countries and territories by area.
• Samut Prakan is the 72nd largest of the 77 provinces of Thailand and covers 0.2% of its area; it is the 3rd most densely populated of them.
• Cyprus lies about 21° of latitude (roughly 2,370 km) north of Samut Prakan.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Cyprus would have about 4,010 m² and each person in Samut Prakan about 670 m².
• Laid side by side, Cyprus and Samut Prakan would cover 6,290 km², 1.10× the size of Brunei.
• Together they have 2.7 million people, about as many people as Jamaica.
• Samut Prakan is drawn from 40 points: at a size under 2,500 km² the outline is a sketch, so the overlap shows the proportions rather than the exact shape.
• Counted as a country, Samut Prakan would rank 186th by area and 158th by population.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2023 and Wikidata 2020. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Our measured 5,400 km² is 42% below Wikidata's official figure of 9,240 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.
• Our measured 900 km² is 10% below Wikidata's official figure of 1,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.

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