Nakhon Ratchasima is 1.01× the size of El Salvador

What fits

• El Salvador is 99% of the size of Nakhon Ratchasima.
• Nakhon Ratchasima is larger by 221 km² (85.3 mi²), which is 1.1% of the area of El Salvador.
• Measured in Belgiums: Nakhon Ratchasima is about 0.68, El Salvador about 0.67.

How they differ

• Nakhon Ratchasima is larger, but El Salvador has the larger population: 6.0 million against 2.6 million, 2.29× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 294 in El Salvador against 127 in Nakhon Ratchasima: El Salvador is 2.31× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 16,600 km apart.
• Together Nakhon Ratchasima and El Salvador cover 41,300 km², close to the size of Switzerland (41,400 km², 0.3% bigger).
• The gap between them, 221 km², is about the size of Saint Kitts and Nevis (264 km²).
• At El Salvador's density, Nakhon Ratchasima would have 6.1 million people (it has 2.6 million). At Nakhon Ratchasima's density, El Salvador would have 2.6 million (it has 6.0 million).
• Nakhon Ratchasima's centre is 1.2° of latitude, about 140 km, farther north than El Salvador's.
• Nakhon Ratchasima is the 2nd largest of the 77 provinces of Thailand and covers 4.0% of its area; it is the 37th most densely populated of them.
• El Salvador ranks 154th of 246 countries and territories by area.
• Both lie at about the same latitude, 15°N and 14°N.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Nakhon Ratchasima would have about 7,880 m² and each person in El Salvador about 3,410 m².
• Laid side by side, Nakhon Ratchasima and El Salvador would cover 41,300 km², about the same size as Switzerland.
• Together they have 8.7 million people, 97% as many people as Papua New Guinea.
• Counted as a country, Nakhon Ratchasima would rank 153rd by area and 143rd by population.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2024. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 20,500 km² agrees with our measured area of 20,800 km², to within 2%.
• Our measured 20,500 km² is 2.4% below Wikidata's official figure of 21,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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