Kagawa is 1.35× the size of Mexico City
Kagawa (prefecture of Japan) covers about 1,850 km² (716 mi²) and Mexico City (federal entity of Mexico) about 1,380 km² (531 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.
- 1,850km²Kagawa
- 1,380km²Mexico City
20 km
- Kagawa
- Mexico City
What fits
- Mexico City is 74% of the size of Kagawa.
- Kagawa is larger by 478 km² (185 mi²), which is 35% of the area of Mexico City.
- Measured in Belgiums: Kagawa is about 0.06, Mexico City about 0.04.
How they differ
- Kagawa is larger, but Mexico City has the larger population: 8.9 million against 949,000, 9.39× as many people.
- Per square kilometre that is 6,486 in Mexico City against 512 in Kagawa: Mexico City is 12.7× as densely populated.
- Their centres are about 11,800 km apart.
- A standard web map misstates the comparison: Kagawa at 34°N is drawn about 1.5× too large and Mexico City at 19°N about 1.1×, so the map shows Kagawa as 1.76× the size of Mexico City instead of 1.35×.
- Together Kagawa and Mexico City cover 3,230 km², close to the size of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (3,320 km², 2.8% bigger).
- The gap between them, 478 km², is about the size of Palau (492 km²).
- At Mexico City's density, Kagawa would have 12.0 million people (it has 949,000). At Kagawa's density, Mexico City would have 704,000 (it has 8.9 million).
- Kagawa's centre is 15.0° of latitude, about 1,660 km, farther north than Mexico City's.
- Kagawa is the 47th largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 0.5% of its area; it is the 11th most densely populated of them.
- Mexico City is the 32nd largest of the 32 states of Mexico and covers less than 0.1% of its area; it is the most densely populated of them.
- Kagawa lies about 15° of latitude (roughly 1,660 km) north of Mexico City.
- Shared out evenly, each person in Kagawa would have about 1,950 m² and each person in Mexico City about 150 m².
- Laid side by side, Kagawa and Mexico City would cover 3,230 km², 1.16× the size of Samoa.
- Together they have 9.9 million people, about as many people as the United Arab Emirates.
- Kagawa is drawn from 94 points and Mexico City is drawn from 42 points: at sizes under 2,500 km² the outlines are a sketch, so the overlap shows the proportions rather than the exact shape.
Side by side
| Kagawa | Mexico City | |
|---|---|---|
| Is a | PrefectureJapan | Federal entityMexico |
| Area, measured | 1,850 km²716 mi² | 1,380 km²531 mi² |
| Official area | 1,860 km²Wikidata | 1,490 km²Wikidata |
| Rank by area | 47th of 47in Japan | 32nd of 32in Mexico |
| Population | 949,000Wikidata, 2020 | 8.9 millionWikidata, 2015 |
| Rank by population | 38th of 47in Japan | 2nd of 32in Mexico |
| Density | 512 per km² | 6,486 per km² |
| Capital | Takamatsu | – |
| Latitude range | 34°N to 35°N | 19°N to 20°N |
Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2015. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).
- Wikidata's official figure of 1,860 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,850 km², to within 2%.
- Our measured 1,380 km² is 7.4% below Wikidata's official figure of 1,490 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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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