Lower Saxony is 1.12× the size of Jammu and Kashmir

What fits

• Jammu and Kashmir is 89% of the size of Lower Saxony.
• Lower Saxony is larger by 5,040 km² (1,950 mi²), which is 12% of the area of Jammu and Kashmir.
• Measured in Belgiums: Lower Saxony is about 1.55, Jammu and Kashmir about 1.39.

How they differ

• Lower Saxony is larger, but Jammu and Kashmir has the larger population: 12.3 million against 7.9 million, 1.54× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 288 in Jammu and Kashmir against 167 in Lower Saxony: Jammu and Kashmir is 1.73× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 5,530 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Lower Saxony at 53°N is drawn about 2.7× too large and Jammu and Kashmir at 34°N about 1.4×, so the map shows Lower Saxony as 2.12× the size of Jammu and Kashmir instead of 1.12×.
• Together Lower Saxony and Jammu and Kashmir cover 90,100 km², close to the size of Western Sahara (90,500 km², 0.4% bigger).
• The gap between them, 5,040 km², is about the size of Trinidad and Tobago (5,120 km²).
• At Jammu and Kashmir's density, Lower Saxony would have 13.7 million people (it has 7.9 million). At Lower Saxony's density, Jammu and Kashmir would have 7.1 million (it has 12.3 million).
• Lower Saxony's centre is 19.2° of latitude, about 2,140 km, farther north than Jammu and Kashmir's.
• 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.
• Jammu and Kashmir is the 22nd largest of the 36 states and union territories of India and covers 1.4% of its area; it is the 22nd most densely populated of them.
• Lower Saxony lies about 19° of latitude (roughly 2,140 km) north of Jammu and Kashmir.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Lower Saxony would have about 5,990 m² and each person in Jammu and Kashmir about 3,470 m².
• Laid side by side, Lower Saxony and Jammu and Kashmir would cover 90,100 km², about the same size as Portugal.
• Together they have 20.2 million people, about as many people as Kazakhstan.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2011. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 47,600 km² agrees with our measured area of 47,600 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 42,200 km² agrees with our measured area of 42,600 km², to within 2%.

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