North Dakota is 4.52× the size of Bhutan

What fits

• Bhutan fits inside North Dakota about 4.52 times by area.
• North Dakota is larger by 142,000 km² (55,000 mi²), which is 352% of the area of Bhutan.
• Measured in Belgiums: North Dakota is about 5.96, Bhutan about 1.32.

How they differ

• North Dakota is larger, but Bhutan has the larger population: 787,000 against 779,000, 1.01× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 19 in Bhutan against 4.3 in North Dakota: Bhutan is 4.57× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 11,600 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: North Dakota at 47°N is drawn about 2.2× too large and Bhutan at 27°N about 1.3×, so the map shows North Dakota as 7.79× the size of Bhutan instead of 4.52×.
• Together North Dakota and Bhutan cover 223,000 km², close to the size of Laos (228,000 km², 2.2% bigger).
• The gap between them, 142,000 km², is about the size of Tajikistan (142,000 km²).
• At Bhutan's density, North Dakota would have 3.6 million people (it has 779,000). At North Dakota's density, Bhutan would have 172,000 (it has 787,000).
• North Dakota's centre is 20.0° of latitude, about 2,230 km, farther north than Bhutan's.
• North Dakota is the 18th largest of the 51 states and districts of the United States and covers 1.9% of its area; it is the 48th most densely populated of them.
• Bhutan ranks 136th of 246 countries and territories by area.
• North Dakota lies about 20° of latitude (roughly 2,230 km) north of Bhutan.
• Shared out evenly, each person in North Dakota would have about 234,560 m² and each person in Bhutan about 51,330 m².
• Laid side by side, North Dakota and Bhutan would cover 223,000 km², about the same size as Laos.
• Together they have 1.6 million people, 1.12× as many people as East Timor.
• Counted as a country, North Dakota would rank 89th by area and 166th by population.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2023. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 183,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 183,000 km², to within 2%.
• Our measured 40,400 km² is 5.3% above Wikidata's official figure of 38,400 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.

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