Newfoundland and Labrador is 1.05× the size of Yunnan

Newfoundland and Labrador (province of Canada) covers about 403,000 km² (156,000 mi²) and Yunnan (province of China) about 385,000 km² (149,000 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

403,000km²Newfoundland and Labrador
385,000km²Yunnan

200 km

Newfoundland and Labrador
Yunnan

What fits

Yunnan is 96% of the size of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Newfoundland and Labrador is larger by 17,900 km² (6,920 mi²), which is 4.7% of the area of Yunnan.
Measured in Belgiums: Newfoundland and Labrador is about 13.2, Yunnan about 12.6.

How they differ

Newfoundland and Labrador is larger, but Yunnan has the larger population: 47.2 million against 511,000, 92.5× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 122 in Yunnan against 1.3 in Newfoundland and Labrador: Yunnan is 96.8× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 11,200 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Newfoundland and Labrador at 53°N is drawn about 2.7× too large and Yunnan at 25°N about 1.2×, so the map shows Newfoundland and Labrador as 2.35× the size of Yunnan instead of 1.05×.
Together Newfoundland and Labrador and Yunnan cover 789,000 km², close to the size of Mozambique (788,000 km², 0.0% smaller).
The gap between them, 17,900 km², is about the size of Kuwait (17,500 km²).
At Yunnan's density, Newfoundland and Labrador would have 49.4 million people (it has 511,000). At Newfoundland and Labrador's density, Yunnan would have 488,000 (it has 47.2 million).
Newfoundland and Labrador's centre is 27.8° of latitude, about 3,090 km, farther north than Yunnan'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.
Yunnan is the 8th largest of the 31 provinces and regions of China and covers 4.1% of its area; it is the 25th most densely populated of them.
Newfoundland and Labrador lies about 28° of latitude (roughly 3,090 km) north of Yunnan.
Shared out evenly, each person in Newfoundland and Labrador would have about 789,980 m² and each person in Yunnan about 8,160 m².
Laid side by side, Newfoundland and Labrador and Yunnan would cover 789,000 km², about the same size as Mozambique.
Together they have 47.7 million people, about as many people as Argentina.

Side by side

	Newfoundland and Labrador	Yunnan
Is a	ProvinceCanada	ProvinceChina
Area, measured	403,000 km²156,000 mi²	385,000 km²149,000 mi²
Official area	405,000 km²Wikidata	394,000 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	10th of 13in Canada	8th of 31in China
Population	511,000Wikidata, 2021	47.2 millionWikidata, 2020
Rank by population	9th of 13in Canada	12th of 31in China
Density	1.3 per km²	122 per km²
Capital	St. John's	Kunming
Latitude range	47°N to 60°N	21°N to 29°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%.
Our measured 385,000 km² is 2.2% below Wikidata's official figure of 394,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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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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