Newfoundland and Labrador is 1.50× the size of Colorado

What fits

• Colorado is 67% of the size of Newfoundland and Labrador.
• Newfoundland and Labrador is larger by 134,000 km² (51,800 mi²), which is 50% of the area of Colorado.
• Measured in Belgiums: Newfoundland and Labrador is about 13.2, Colorado about 8.78.

How they differ

• Newfoundland and Labrador is larger, but Colorado has the larger population: 5.8 million against 511,000, 11.3× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 21 in Colorado against 1.3 in Newfoundland and Labrador: Colorado is 16.9× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 3,750 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Newfoundland and Labrador at 53°N is drawn about 2.7× too large and Colorado at 39°N about 1.7×, so the map shows Newfoundland and Labrador as 2.47× the size of Colorado instead of 1.50×.
• Together Newfoundland and Labrador and Colorado cover 673,000 km², close to the size of Myanmar (663,000 km², 1.4% smaller).
• The gap between them, 134,000 km², is about the size of Bangladesh (137,000 km²).
• At Colorado's density, Newfoundland and Labrador would have 8.7 million people (it has 511,000). At Newfoundland and Labrador's density, Colorado would have 341,000 (it has 5.8 million).
• Newfoundland and Labrador's centre is 13.7° of latitude, about 1,530 km, farther north than Colorado's.
• Newfoundland and Labrador is the 10th largest of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and covers 4.1% of its area; it is the 10th most densely populated of them.
• Colorado is the 8th largest of the 51 states and districts of the United States and covers 2.8% of its area; it is the 38th most densely populated of them.
• Newfoundland and Labrador lies about 14° of latitude (roughly 1,530 km) north of Colorado.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Newfoundland and Labrador would have about 789,980 m² and each person in Colorado about 46,630 m².
• Laid side by side, Newfoundland and Labrador and Colorado would cover 673,000 km², about the same size as Myanmar.
• Together they have 6.3 million people, about as many people as Bulgaria.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2021 and Wikidata 2020. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 405,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 403,000 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 270,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 269,000 km², to within 2%.

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