Jalisco is 1.68× the size of Lower Saxony

What fits

• Lower Saxony is 59% of the size of Jalisco.
• Jalisco is larger by 32,400 km² (12,500 mi²), which is 68% of the area of Lower Saxony.
• Measured in Belgiums: Jalisco is about 2.61, Lower Saxony about 1.55.

How they differ

• Jalisco is larger, but Lower Saxony has the larger population: 7.9 million against 7.8 million, 1.01× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 167 in Lower Saxony against 98 in Jalisco: Lower Saxony is 1.70× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 9,620 km apart.
• On a standard web map Lower Saxony looks larger than Jalisco: Jalisco at 21°N is drawn about 1.1× too large and Lower Saxony at 53°N about 2.7×, so the map shows Lower Saxony as 1.42× the size of Jalisco, when Jalisco is 1.68× the size of Lower Saxony.
• Together Jalisco and Lower Saxony cover 128,000 km², close to the size of Nicaragua (129,000 km², 0.9% bigger).
• The gap between them, 32,400 km², is about the size of Guinea-Bissau (32,800 km²).
• At Lower Saxony's density, Jalisco would have 13.4 million people (it has 7.8 million). At Jalisco's density, Lower Saxony would have 4.7 million (it has 7.9 million).
• Lower Saxony's centre is 32.2° of latitude, about 3,580 km, farther north than Jalisco's.
• Jalisco is the 6th largest of the 32 states of Mexico and covers 4.1% of its area; it is the 13th most densely populated of them.
• Lower Saxony is the 2nd largest of the 16 states of Germany and covers 13% of its area; it is the 12th most densely populated of them.
• Lower Saxony lies about 32° of latitude (roughly 3,580 km) north of Jalisco.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Jalisco would have about 10,200 m² and each person in Lower Saxony about 5,990 m².
• Laid side by side, Jalisco and Lower Saxony would cover 128,000 km², about the same size as Nicaragua.
• Together they have 15.8 million people, 1.04× as many people as Zimbabwe.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2015 and Wikidata 2022. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 78,600 km² agrees with our measured area of 80,000 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 47,600 km² agrees with our measured area of 47,600 km², to within 2%.

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