Northwest Territories is 1.06× the size of Chad

What fits

• Chad is 94% of the size of Northwest Territories.
• Northwest Territories is larger by 82,100 km² (31,700 mi²), which is 6.5% of the area of Chad.
• Measured in Belgiums: Northwest Territories is about 44.0, Chad about 41.3.

How they differ

• Northwest Territories is larger, but Chad has the larger population: 19.3 million against 41,000, 470× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 15 in Chad against 0.0 in Northwest Territories: Chad is 501× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 10,300 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Northwest Territories at 66°N is drawn about 5.9× too large and Chad at 15°N about 1.1×, so the map shows Northwest Territories as 5.87× the size of Chad instead of 1.06×.
• Together Northwest Territories and Chad cover 2,615,000 km², close to the size of Kazakhstan (2,714,000 km², 3.8% bigger).
• The gap between them, 82,100 km², is about the size of Austria (84,000 km²).
• At Chad's density, Northwest Territories would have 20.6 million people (it has 41,000). At Northwest Territories's density, Chad would have 39,000 (it has 19.3 million).
• Northwest Territories's centre is 50.5° of latitude, about 5,610 km, farther north than Chad's.
• Northwest Territories is the 3rd largest of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and covers 14% of its area; it is the 12th most densely populated of them.
• Chad ranks 22nd of 246 countries and territories by area.
• Northwest Territories lies about 50° of latitude (roughly 5,610 km) north of Chad.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Northwest Territories would have about 32,831,160 m² and each person in Chad about 65,550 m².
• Laid side by side, Northwest Territories and Chad would cover 2,615,000 km², 96% of the size of Kazakhstan.
• Together they have 19.4 million people, about as many people as Chile.
• Counted as a country, Northwest Territories would rank 20th by area and 211th by population.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2021 and Wikidata 2023. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 1,346,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,348,000 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 1,284,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,266,000 km², to within 2%.

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