Newfoundland and Labrador is 1.45× the size of Tocantins

What fits

• Tocantins is 69% of the size of Newfoundland and Labrador.
• Newfoundland and Labrador is larger by 124,000 km² (48,000 mi²), which is 45% of the area of Tocantins.
• Measured in Belgiums: Newfoundland and Labrador is about 13.2, Tocantins about 9.10.

How they differ

• Newfoundland and Labrador is larger, but Tocantins has the larger population: 1.5 million against 511,000, 2.96× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 5.4 in Tocantins against 1.3 in Newfoundland and Labrador: Tocantins is 4.28× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 7,080 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Newfoundland and Labrador at 53°N is drawn about 2.7× too large and Tocantins at 10°S about 1.0×, so the map shows Newfoundland and Labrador as 3.82× the size of Tocantins instead of 1.45×.
• Together Newfoundland and Labrador and Tocantins cover 682,000 km², close to the size of Myanmar (663,000 km², 2.8% smaller).
• The gap between them, 124,000 km², is about the size of Eritrea (123,000 km²).
• At Tocantins's density, Newfoundland and Labrador would have 2.2 million people (it has 511,000). At Newfoundland and Labrador's density, Tocantins would have 353,000 (it has 1.5 million).
• Newfoundland and Labrador's centre is 62.9° of latitude, about 6,990 km, farther north than Tocantins'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.
• Tocantins is the 9th largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 3.3% of its area; it is the 22nd most densely populated of them.
• Newfoundland and Labrador lies about 63° of latitude (roughly 6,990 km) north of Tocantins, on the other side of the equator.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Newfoundland and Labrador would have about 789,980 m² and each person in Tocantins about 184,570 m².
• Laid side by side, Newfoundland and Labrador and Tocantins would cover 682,000 km², about the same size as Myanmar.
• Together they have 2.0 million people, about as many people as Gabon.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2021 and Wikidata 2022. 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 278,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 279,000 km², to within 2%.

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