Northern Territory is 1.18× the size of Inner Mongolia

What fits

• Inner Mongolia is 85% of the size of Northern Territory.
• Northern Territory is larger by 204,000 km² (78,800 mi²), which is 18% of the area of Inner Mongolia.
• Measured in Belgiums: Northern Territory is about 44.0, Inner Mongolia about 37.3.

How they differ

• Northern Territory is larger, but Inner Mongolia has the larger population: 24.0 million against 262,000, 91.7× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 21 in Inner Mongolia against 0.2 in Northern Territory: Inner Mongolia is 108× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 7,340 km apart.
• On a standard web map Inner Mongolia looks larger than Northern Territory: Northern Territory at 19°S is drawn about 1.1× too large and Inner Mongolia at 44°N about 1.9×, so the map shows Inner Mongolia as 1.46× the size of Northern Territory, when Northern Territory is 1.18× the size of Inner Mongolia.
• Together Northern Territory and Inner Mongolia cover 2,493,000 km², close to the size of Democratic Republic of the Congo (2,325,000 km², 6.7% smaller).
• The gap between them, 204,000 km², is about the size of Belarus (207,000 km²).
• At Inner Mongolia's density, Northern Territory would have 28.3 million people (it has 262,000). At Northern Territory's density, Inner Mongolia would have 223,000 (it has 24.0 million).
• Inner Mongolia's centre is 63.4° of latitude, about 7,050 km, farther north than Northern Territory's.
• Northern Territory is the 3rd largest of the 8 states and territories of Australia and covers 18% of its area; it is the 8th most densely populated of them.
• Inner Mongolia is the 2nd largest of the 31 provinces and regions of China and covers 12% of its area; it is the 28th most densely populated of them.
• Inner Mongolia lies about 63° of latitude (roughly 7,050 km) north of Northern Territory, on the other side of the equator.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Northern Territory would have about 5,142,900 m² and each person in Inner Mongolia about 47,590 m².
• Laid side by side, Northern Territory and Inner Mongolia would cover 2,493,000 km², 1.07× the size of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• Together they have 24.3 million people, about as many people as Syria.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2024 and Wikidata 2020. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 1,348,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,348,000 km², to within 2%.
• Our measured 1,144,000 km² is 3.1% below Wikidata's official figure of 1,181,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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