El Salvador is 1.02× the size of Rhineland-Palatinate

What fits

• Rhineland-Palatinate is 98% of the size of El Salvador.
• El Salvador is larger by 443 km² (171 mi²), which is 2.2% of the area of Rhineland-Palatinate.
• Measured in Belgiums: El Salvador is about 0.67, Rhineland-Palatinate about 0.66.

How they differ

• El Salvador also has the larger population: 6.0 million against 4.1 million, 1.47× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 294 in El Salvador against 204 in Rhineland-Palatinate: El Salvador is 1.44× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 9,290 km apart.
• On a standard web map Rhineland-Palatinate looks larger than El Salvador: El Salvador at 14°N is drawn about 1.1× too large and Rhineland-Palatinate at 50°N about 2.4×, so the map shows Rhineland-Palatinate as 2.23× the size of El Salvador, when El Salvador is 1.02× the size of Rhineland-Palatinate.
• Together El Salvador and Rhineland-Palatinate cover 40,600 km², close to the size of Bhutan (40,400 km², 0.5% smaller).
• The gap between them, 443 km², is about the size of Barbados (444 km²).
• At Rhineland-Palatinate's density, El Salvador would have 4.2 million people (it has 6.0 million). At El Salvador's density, Rhineland-Palatinate would have 5.9 million (it has 4.1 million).
• Rhineland-Palatinate's centre is 36.2° of latitude, about 4,020 km, farther north than El Salvador's.
• El Salvador ranks 154th of 246 countries and territories by area.
• Rhineland-Palatinate is the 9th largest of the 16 states of Germany and covers 5.6% of its area; it is the 9th most densely populated of them.
• Rhineland-Palatinate lies about 36° of latitude (roughly 4,020 km) north of El Salvador.
• Shared out evenly, each person in El Salvador would have about 3,410 m² and each person in Rhineland-Palatinate about 4,910 m².
• Laid side by side, El Salvador and Rhineland-Palatinate would cover 40,600 km², about the same size as Bhutan.
• Together they have 10.1 million people, about as many people as Azerbaijan.
• Counted as a country, Rhineland-Palatinate would rank 155th by area and 130th by population.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2024 and Wikidata 2022. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Our measured 20,500 km² is 2.4% below Wikidata's official figure of 21,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.
• Wikidata's official figure of 19,900 km² agrees with our measured area of 20,100 km², to within 2%.

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