Hokkaido (Japan) is 1.08× the size of New Brunswick

Hokkaido (Japan) (prefecture of Japan) covers about 78,800 km² (30,400 mi²) and New Brunswick (province of Canada) about 72,800 km² (28,100 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

78,800km²Hokkaido (Japan)
72,800km²New Brunswick

100 km

Hokkaido (Japan)
New Brunswick

Hokkaido (Japan): Part of this region's boundary is disputed with Russia. Size Versus draws Natural Earth's de facto outline, the boundary as it is held on the ground, and takes no position on it.

What fits

New Brunswick is 92% of the size of Hokkaido (Japan).
Hokkaido (Japan) is larger by 6,000 km² (2,320 mi²), which is 8.2% of the area of New Brunswick.
Measured in Belgiums: Hokkaido (Japan) is about 2.57, New Brunswick about 2.37.

How they differ

Hokkaido (Japan) also has the larger population: 5.4 million against 776,000, 7.00× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 69 in Hokkaido (Japan) against 11 in New Brunswick: Hokkaido (Japan) is 6.47× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 9,610 km apart.
On a standard web map New Brunswick looks larger than Hokkaido (Japan): Hokkaido (Japan) at 43°N is drawn about 1.9× too large and New Brunswick at 47°N about 2.1×, so the map shows New Brunswick as 1.03× the size of Hokkaido (Japan), when Hokkaido (Japan) is 1.08× the size of New Brunswick.
Together Hokkaido (Japan) and New Brunswick cover 152,000 km², close to the size of Nepal (147,000 km², 2.9% smaller).
The gap between them, 6,000 km², is about the size of Palestine (6,070 km²).
At New Brunswick's density, Hokkaido (Japan) would have 840,000 people (it has 5.4 million). At Hokkaido (Japan)'s density, New Brunswick would have 5.0 million (it has 776,000).
New Brunswick's centre is 3.2° of latitude, about 360 km, farther north than Hokkaido (Japan)'s.
Hokkaido (Japan) is the largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 21% of its area; it is the 47th most densely populated of them.
New Brunswick is the 11th largest of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and covers 0.7% of its area; it is the 4th most densely populated of them.
New Brunswick lies about 3° of latitude (roughly 360 km) north of Hokkaido (Japan).
Shared out evenly, each person in Hokkaido (Japan) would have about 14,500 m² and each person in New Brunswick about 93,840 m².
Laid side by side, Hokkaido (Japan) and New Brunswick would cover 152,000 km², 1.03× the size of Nepal.
Together they have 6.2 million people, about as many people as the Republic of the Congo.

Side by side

	Hokkaido (Japan)	New Brunswick
Is a	PrefectureJapan	ProvinceCanada
Area, measured	78,800 km²30,400 mi²	72,800 km²28,100 mi²
Official area	83,400 km²Wikidata	72,900 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	1st of 47in Japan	11th of 13in Canada
Population	5.4 millionWikidata, 2014	776,000Wikidata, 2021
Rank by population	8th of 47in Japan	8th of 13in Canada
Density	69 per km²	11 per km²
Capital	Sapporo	–
Latitude range	41°N to 46°N	45°N to 48°N

Population: Wikidata 2014 and Wikidata 2021. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Our measured 78,800 km² is 5.6% below Wikidata's official figure of 83,400 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.
Wikidata's official figure of 72,900 km² agrees with our measured area of 72,800 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. A region is drawn whole, every island included; a country is its main territory.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded.
Drawing: Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and the two can be laid over each other.
Data built: 2026-11-12

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