Luxembourg is 1.19× the size of Tokyo

What fits

• Tokyo is 84% of the size of Luxembourg.
• Luxembourg is larger by 425 km² (164 mi²), which is 19% of the area of Tokyo.
• Measured in Belgiums: Luxembourg is about 0.09, Tokyo about 0.07.

How they differ

• Luxembourg is larger, but Tokyo has the larger population: 14.3 million against 691,000, 20.6× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 6,534 in Tokyo against 265 in Luxembourg: Tokyo is 24.7× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 9,540 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Luxembourg at 50°N is drawn about 2.4× too large and Tokyo at 35°N about 1.5×, so the map shows Luxembourg as 1.92× the size of Tokyo instead of 1.19×.
• Together Luxembourg and Tokyo cover 4,790 km², close to the size of Trinidad and Tobago (5,120 km², 6.9% bigger).
• The gap between them, 425 km², is about the size of Seychelles (436 km²).
• At Tokyo's density, Luxembourg would have 17.0 million people (it has 691,000). At Luxembourg's density, Tokyo would have 578,000 (it has 14.3 million).
• Luxembourg's centre is 14.7° of latitude, about 1,640 km, farther north than Tokyo's.
• Luxembourg ranks 181st of 246 countries and territories by area.
• Tokyo is the 44th largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 0.6% of its area; it is the most densely populated of them.
• Luxembourg lies about 15° of latitude (roughly 1,640 km) north of Tokyo.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Luxembourg would have about 3,780 m² and each person in Tokyo about 150 m².
• Laid side by side, Luxembourg and Tokyo would cover 4,790 km², 94% of the size of Trinidad and Tobago.
• Together they have 15.0 million people, about as many people as Zimbabwe.
• Tokyo is drawn from 173 points: at a size under 2,500 km² the outline is a sketch, so the overlap shows the proportions rather than the exact shape.
• Counted as a country, Tokyo would rank 181st by area and 76th by population.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2026 and Wikidata 2022. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 2,590 km² agrees with our measured area of 2,610 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 2,190 km² agrees with our measured area of 2,180 km², to within 2%.

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