New Jersey is 8.25× the size of Kanagawa

What fits

• Kanagawa fits inside New Jersey about 8.25 times by area.
• New Jersey is larger by 17,300 km² (6,670 mi²), which is 725% of the area of Kanagawa.
• Measured in Belgiums: New Jersey is about 0.64, Kanagawa about 0.08.

How they differ

• New Jersey also has the larger population: 9.3 million against 9.2 million, 1.01× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 3,865 in Kanagawa against 472 in New Jersey: Kanagawa is 8.18× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 10,900 km apart.
• Together New Jersey and Kanagawa cover 22,100 km², close to the size of Israel (22,100 km², 0.2% bigger).
• The gap between them, 17,300 km², is about the size of Eswatini (17,100 km²).
• At Kanagawa's density, New Jersey would have 76.0 million people (it has 9.3 million). At New Jersey's density, Kanagawa would have 1.1 million (it has 9.2 million).
• New Jersey's centre is 4.8° of latitude, about 530 km, farther north than Kanagawa's.
• New Jersey is the 46th largest of the 51 states and districts of the United States and covers 0.2% of its area; it is the 2nd most densely populated of them.
• Kanagawa is the 43rd largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 0.6% of its area; it is the 3rd most densely populated of them.
• New Jersey lies about 5° of latitude (roughly 532 km) north of Kanagawa.
• Shared out evenly, each person in New Jersey would have about 2,120 m² and each person in Kanagawa about 260 m².
• Laid side by side, New Jersey and Kanagawa would cover 22,100 km², about the same size as Djibouti.
• Together they have 18.5 million people, about as many people as Romania.
• Kanagawa is drawn from 83 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. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Our measured 19,700 km² is 13% below Wikidata's official figure of 22,600 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.
• Wikidata's official figure of 2,420 km² agrees with our measured area of 2,380 km², to within 2%.

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