New Hampshire is 46.1× the size of Puducherry

What fits

• Puducherry fits inside New Hampshire about 46.1 times by area.
• New Hampshire is larger by 23,700 km² (9,170 mi²), which is 4,511% of the area of Puducherry.
• Measured in Belgiums: New Hampshire is about 0.79, Puducherry about 0.02.

How they differ

• New Hampshire is larger, but Puducherry has the larger population: 1.4 million against 1.4 million, 1.01× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 2,650 in Puducherry against 57 in New Hampshire: Puducherry is 46.7× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 13,100 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: New Hampshire at 44°N is drawn about 1.9× too large and Puducherry at 12°N about 1.0×, so the map shows New Hampshire as 84.4× the size of Puducherry instead of 46.1×.
• Together New Hampshire and Puducherry cover 24,800 km², close to the size of Rwanda (25,300 km², 2.1% bigger).
• The gap between them, 23,700 km², is about the size of Belize (22,300 km²).
• At Puducherry's density, New Hampshire would have 64.3 million people (it has 1.4 million). At New Hampshire's density, Puducherry would have 30,000 (it has 1.4 million).
• New Hampshire's centre is 31.7° of latitude, about 3,530 km, farther north than Puducherry's.
• New Hampshire is the 44th largest of the 51 states and districts of the United States and covers 0.3% of its area; it is the 21st most densely populated of them.
• Puducherry is the 34th largest of the 36 states and union territories of India and covers less than 0.1% of its area; it is the 3rd most densely populated of them.
• New Hampshire lies about 32° of latitude (roughly 3,530 km) north of Puducherry.
• Shared out evenly, each person in New Hampshire would have about 17,620 m² and each person in Puducherry about 380 m².
• Laid side by side, New Hampshire and Puducherry would cover 24,800 km², about the same size as Rwanda.
• Together they have 2.8 million people, about as many people as Albania.
• Puducherry is drawn from 37 points: at a size under 2,500 km² the outline is a sketch, so the overlap shows the proportions rather than the exact shape.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2011. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 24,200 km² agrees with our measured area of 24,300 km², to within 2%.
• Our measured 526 km² is 7.0% above Wikidata's official figure of 492 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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