New South Wales is 1.66× the size of Yukon

What fits

• Yukon is 60% of the size of New South Wales.
• New South Wales is larger by 317,000 km² (123,000 mi²), which is 66% of the area of Yukon.
• Measured in Belgiums: New South Wales is about 26.1, Yukon about 15.8.

How they differ

• New South Wales also has the larger population: 8.5 million against 40,000, 212× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 11 in New South Wales against 0.1 in Yukon: New South Wales is 128× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 12,600 km apart.
• On a standard web map Yukon looks larger than New South Wales: New South Wales at 32°S is drawn about 1.4× too large and Yukon at 63°N about 5.0×, so the map shows Yukon as 2.17× the size of New South Wales, when New South Wales is 1.66× the size of Yukon.
• Together New South Wales and Yukon cover 1,286,000 km², close to the size of Peru (1,290,000 km², 0.3% bigger).
• The gap between them, 317,000 km², is about the size of Ivory Coast (321,000 km²).
• At Yukon's density, New South Wales would have 67,000 people (it has 8.5 million). At New South Wales's density, Yukon would have 5.2 million (it has 40,000).
• Yukon's centre is 95.6° of latitude, about 10,630 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.
• Yukon is the 9th largest of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and covers 4.9% of its area; it is the 11th most densely populated of them.
• Yukon lies about 96° of latitude (roughly 10,600 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 Yukon about 12,042,300 m².
• Laid side by side, New South Wales and Yukon would cover 1,286,000 km², about the same size as Peru.
• Together they have 8.6 million people, 1.03× as many people as Honduras.

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 482,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 484,000 km², to within 2%.

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