Inner Mongolia is 7.78× the size of Nepal

What fits

• Nepal fits inside Inner Mongolia about 7.78 times by area.
• Inner Mongolia is larger by 997,000 km² (385,000 mi²), which is 678% of the area of Nepal.
• Measured in Belgiums: Inner Mongolia is about 37.3, Nepal about 4.80.

How they differ

• Inner Mongolia is larger, but Nepal has the larger population: 29.2 million against 24.0 million, 1.21× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 198 in Nepal against 21 in Inner Mongolia: Nepal is 9.43× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 3,130 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Inner Mongolia at 44°N is drawn about 1.9× too large and Nepal at 28°N about 1.3×, so the map shows Inner Mongolia as 11.7× the size of Nepal instead of 7.78×.
• Together Inner Mongolia and Nepal cover 1,292,000 km², close to the size of Peru (1,290,000 km², 0.1% smaller).
• The gap between them, 997,000 km², is about the size of Egypt (1,001,000 km²).
• At Nepal's density, Inner Mongolia would have 226.9 million people (it has 24.0 million). At Inner Mongolia's density, Nepal would have 3.1 million (it has 29.2 million).
• Inner Mongolia's centre is 15.8° of latitude, about 1,760 km, farther north than Nepal's.
• Inner Mongolia is the 2nd largest of the 31 provinces and regions of China and covers 12% of its area; it is the 28th most densely populated of them.
• Nepal ranks 94th of 246 countries and territories by area.
• Inner Mongolia lies about 16° of latitude (roughly 1,760 km) north of Nepal.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Inner Mongolia would have about 47,590 m² and each person in Nepal about 5,040 m².
• Laid side by side, Inner Mongolia and Nepal would cover 1,292,000 km², about the same size as Peru.
• Together they have 53.2 million people, about as many people as Myanmar.
• Counted as a country, Inner Mongolia would rank 26th by area and 56th by population.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2021. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Our measured 1,144,000 km² is 3.1% below Wikidata's official figure of 1,181,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.
• Wikidata's official figure of 147,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 147,000 km², to within 2%.

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