New South Wales is 9.55× the size of Austria

What fits

• Austria fits inside New South Wales about 9.55 times by area.
• New South Wales is larger by 718,000 km² (277,000 mi²), which is 855% of the area of Austria.
• Measured in Belgiums: New South Wales is about 26.1, Austria about 2.74.

How they differ

• New South Wales is larger, but Austria has the larger population: 9.0 million against 8.5 million, 1.05× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 107 in Austria against 11 in New South Wales: Austria is 10.0× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 15,700 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: New South Wales at 32°S is drawn about 1.4× too large and Austria at 48°N about 2.2×, so the map shows New South Wales as 6.06× the size of Austria instead of 9.55×.
• Together New South Wales and Austria cover 886,000 km², close to the size of Pakistan (873,000 km², 1.5% smaller).
• The gap between them, 718,000 km², is about the size of Chile (736,000 km²).
• At Austria's density, New South Wales would have 85.7 million people (it has 8.5 million). At New South Wales's density, Austria would have 895,000 (it has 9.0 million).
• Austria's centre is 79.8° of latitude, about 8,870 km, farther north than New South Wales's.
• New South Wales is the 5th largest of the 8 states and territories of Australia and covers 10% of its area; it is the 3rd most densely populated of them.
• Austria ranks 116th of 246 countries and territories by area.
• Austria lies about 80° of latitude (roughly 8,870 km) north of New South Wales, on the other side of the equator.
• Shared out evenly, each person in New South Wales would have about 93,850 m² and each person in Austria about 9,350 m².
• Laid side by side, New South Wales and Austria would cover 886,000 km², about the same size as Pakistan.
• Together they have 17.5 million people, about as many people as Guinea.
• Counted as a country, New South Wales would rank 36th by area and 100th by population.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2024 and Wikidata 2022. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 801,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 802,000 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 83,900 km² agrees with our measured area of 84,000 km², to within 2%.

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