Newfoundland and Labrador is 1.79× the size of Minnesota

What fits

• Minnesota is 56% of the size of Newfoundland and Labrador.
• Newfoundland and Labrador is larger by 179,000 km² (68,900 mi²), which is 79% of the area of Minnesota.
• Measured in Belgiums: Newfoundland and Labrador is about 13.2, Minnesota about 7.33.

How they differ

• Newfoundland and Labrador is larger, but Minnesota has the larger population: 5.7 million against 511,000, 11.2× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 25 in Minnesota against 1.3 in Newfoundland and Labrador: Minnesota is 20.1× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 2,530 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Newfoundland and Labrador at 53°N is drawn about 2.7× too large and Minnesota at 46°N about 2.1×, so the map shows Newfoundland and Labrador as 2.34× the size of Minnesota instead of 1.79×.
• Together Newfoundland and Labrador and Minnesota cover 628,000 km², close to the size of South Sudan (627,000 km², 0.2% smaller).
• The gap between them, 179,000 km², is about the size of Uruguay (177,000 km²).
• At Minnesota's density, Newfoundland and Labrador would have 10.2 million people (it has 511,000). At Newfoundland and Labrador's density, Minnesota would have 285,000 (it has 5.7 million).
• Newfoundland and Labrador's centre is 6.4° of latitude, about 710 km, farther north than Minnesota'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.
• Minnesota is the 12th largest of the 51 states and districts of the United States and covers 2.4% of its area; it is the 32nd most densely populated of them.
• Newfoundland and Labrador lies about 6° of latitude (roughly 715 km) north of Minnesota.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Newfoundland and Labrador would have about 789,980 m² and each person in Minnesota about 39,390 m².
• Laid side by side, Newfoundland and Labrador and Minnesota would cover 628,000 km², about the same size as South Sudan.
• Together they have 6.2 million people, about as many people as the Republic of the Congo.

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 225,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 225,000 km², to within 2%.

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