Newfoundland and Labrador is 1.59× the size of Wyoming

What fits

• Wyoming is 63% of the size of Newfoundland and Labrador.
• Newfoundland and Labrador is larger by 150,000 km² (57,900 mi²), which is 59% of the area of Wyoming.
• Measured in Belgiums: Newfoundland and Labrador is about 13.2, Wyoming about 8.26.

How they differ

• Newfoundland and Labrador is larger, but Wyoming has the larger population: 577,000 against 511,000, 1.13× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 2.3 in Wyoming against 1.3 in Newfoundland and Labrador: Wyoming is 1.80× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 3,620 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Newfoundland and Labrador at 53°N is drawn about 2.7× too large and Wyoming at 43°N about 1.9×, so the map shows Newfoundland and Labrador as 2.32× the size of Wyoming instead of 1.59×.
• Together Newfoundland and Labrador and Wyoming cover 657,000 km², close to the size of Myanmar (663,000 km², 1.0% bigger).
• The gap between them, 150,000 km², is about the size of Nepal (147,000 km²).
• At Wyoming's density, Newfoundland and Labrador would have 918,000 people (it has 511,000). At Newfoundland and Labrador's density, Wyoming would have 321,000 (it has 577,000).
• Newfoundland and Labrador's centre is 9.7° of latitude, about 1,080 km, farther north than Wyoming'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.
• Wyoming is the 9th largest of the 51 states and districts of the United States and covers 2.7% of its area; it is the 50th most densely populated of them.
• Newfoundland and Labrador lies about 10° of latitude (roughly 1,080 km) north of Wyoming.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Newfoundland and Labrador would have about 789,980 m² and each person in Wyoming about 439,430 m².
• Laid side by side, Newfoundland and Labrador and Wyoming would cover 657,000 km², about the same size as Myanmar.
• Together they have 1.1 million people, 94% as many people as Djibouti.

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 253,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 253,000 km², to within 2%.

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