Newfoundland and Labrador is 1.96× the size of Shaanxi

Newfoundland and Labrador (province of Canada) covers about 403,000 km² (156,000 mi²) and Shaanxi (province of China) about 206,000 km² (79,400 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

403,000km²Newfoundland and Labrador
206,000km²Shaanxi

200 km

Newfoundland and Labrador
Shaanxi

What fits

Shaanxi is 51% of the size of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Newfoundland and Labrador is larger by 198,000 km² (76,300 mi²), which is 96% of the area of Shaanxi.
Measured in Belgiums: Newfoundland and Labrador is about 13.2, Shaanxi about 6.71.

How they differ

Newfoundland and Labrador is larger, but Shaanxi has the larger population: 39.5 million against 511,000, 77.4× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 192 in Shaanxi against 1.3 in Newfoundland and Labrador: Shaanxi is 152× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 10,200 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Newfoundland and Labrador at 53°N is drawn about 2.7× too large and Shaanxi at 35°N about 1.5×, so the map shows Newfoundland and Labrador as 3.58× the size of Shaanxi instead of 1.96×.
Together Newfoundland and Labrador and Shaanxi cover 609,000 km², close to the size of Central African Republic (618,000 km², 1.5% bigger).
The gap between them, 198,000 km², is about the size of Senegal (196,000 km²).
At Shaanxi's density, Newfoundland and Labrador would have 77.5 million people (it has 511,000). At Newfoundland and Labrador's density, Shaanxi would have 260,000 (it has 39.5 million).
Newfoundland and Labrador's centre is 17.6° of latitude, about 1,960 km, farther north than Shaanxi'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.
Shaanxi is the 11th largest of the 31 provinces and regions of China and covers 2.2% of its area; it is the 21st most densely populated of them.
Newfoundland and Labrador lies about 18° of latitude (roughly 1,960 km) north of Shaanxi.
Shared out evenly, each person in Newfoundland and Labrador would have about 789,980 m² and each person in Shaanxi about 5,200 m².
Laid side by side, Newfoundland and Labrador and Shaanxi would cover 609,000 km², about the same size as the Central African Republic.
Together they have 40.0 million people, about as many people as Sudan.

Side by side

	Newfoundland and Labrador	Shaanxi
Is a	ProvinceCanada	ProvinceChina
Area, measured	403,000 km²156,000 mi²	206,000 km²79,400 mi²
Official area	405,000 km²Wikidata	206,000 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	10th of 13in Canada	11th of 31in China
Population	511,000Wikidata, 2021	39.5 millionWikidata, 2020
Rank by population	9th of 13in Canada	16th of 31in China
Density	1.3 per km²	192 per km²
Capital	St. John's	Xi'an
Latitude range	47°N to 60°N	32°N to 40°N

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 206,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 206,000 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. A region is drawn whole, every island included; a country is its main territory.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded.
Drawing: Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and the two can be laid over each other.
Data built: 2026-11-12

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