New South Wales is 1.23× the size of Manitoba

What fits

• Manitoba is 81% of the size of New South Wales.
• New South Wales is larger by 149,000 km² (57,700 mi²), which is 23% of the area of Manitoba.
• Measured in Belgiums: New South Wales is about 26.1, Manitoba about 21.3.

How they differ

• New South Wales also has the larger population: 8.5 million against 1.3 million, 6.37× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 11 in New South Wales against 2.1 in Manitoba: New South Wales is 5.18× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 14,500 km apart.
• On a standard web map Manitoba looks larger than New South Wales: New South Wales at 32°S is drawn about 1.4× too large and Manitoba at 55°N about 3.0×, so the map shows Manitoba as 1.75× the size of New South Wales, when New South Wales is 1.23× the size of Manitoba.
• Together New South Wales and Manitoba cover 1,455,000 km², close to the size of Mongolia (1,565,000 km², 7.6% bigger).
• The gap between them, 149,000 km², is about the size of Nepal (147,000 km²).
• At Manitoba's density, New South Wales would have 1.6 million people (it has 8.5 million). At New South Wales's density, Manitoba would have 7.0 million (it has 1.3 million).
• Manitoba's centre is 86.9° of latitude, about 9,660 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.
• Manitoba is the 7th largest of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and covers 6.6% of its area; it is the 8th most densely populated of them.
• Manitoba lies about 87° of latitude (roughly 9,660 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 Manitoba about 486,240 m².
• Laid side by side, New South Wales and Manitoba would cover 1,455,000 km², 93% of the size of Mongolia.
• Together they have 9.9 million people, about as many people as the United Arab Emirates.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2024 and Wikidata 2021. 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 648,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 653,000 km², to within 2%.

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