Mongolia is 1.04× the size of Alaska

What fits

• Alaska is 96% of the size of Mongolia.
• Mongolia is larger by 59,300 km² (22,900 mi²), which is 3.9% of the area of Alaska.
• Measured in Belgiums: Mongolia is about 51.0, Alaska about 49.1.

How they differ

• Mongolia also has the larger population: 3.4 million against 733,000, 4.65× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 2.2 in Mongolia against 0.5 in Alaska: Mongolia is 4.47× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 6,050 km apart.
• On a standard web map Alaska looks larger than Mongolia: Mongolia at 47°N is drawn about 2.1× too large and Alaska at 64°N about 5.2×, so the map shows Alaska as 2.33× the size of Mongolia, when Mongolia is 1.04× the size of Alaska.
• Together Mongolia and Alaska cover 3,070,000 km², close to the size of India (3,151,000 km², 2.6% bigger).
• The gap between them, 59,300 km², is about the size of Togo (56,900 km²).
• At Alaska's density, Mongolia would have 762,000 people (it has 3.4 million). At Mongolia's density, Alaska would have 3.3 million (it has 733,000).
• Alaska's centre is 17.0° of latitude, about 1,890 km, farther north than Mongolia's.
• Mongolia ranks 20th of 246 countries and territories by area.
• Alaska is the largest of the 51 states and districts of the United States and covers 16% of its area; it is the 51st most densely populated of them.
• Alaska lies about 17° of latitude (roughly 1,890 km) north of Mongolia.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Mongolia would have about 458,850 m² and each person in Alaska about 2,052,560 m².
• Laid side by side, Mongolia and Alaska would cover 3,070,000 km², about the same size as India.
• Together they have 4.1 million people, 1.05× as many people as Georgia.
• Counted as a country, Alaska would rank 20th by area and 166th by population.

Side by side

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

• Wikidata's official figure of 1,564,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,565,000 km², to within 2%.
• Our measured 1,505,000 km² is 12% below Wikidata's official figure of 1,718,000 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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