Northwest Territories is 1.18× the size of Inner Mongolia

What fits

• Inner Mongolia is 85% of the size of Northwest Territories.
• Northwest Territories is larger by 204,000 km² (78,700 mi²), which is 18% of the area of Inner Mongolia.
• Measured in Belgiums: Northwest Territories is about 44.0, Inner Mongolia about 37.3.

How they differ

• Northwest Territories is larger, but Inner Mongolia has the larger population: 24.0 million against 41,000, 586× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 21 in Inner Mongolia against 0.0 in Northwest Territories: Inner Mongolia is 690× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 7,030 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Northwest Territories at 66°N is drawn about 5.9× too large and Inner Mongolia at 44°N about 1.9×, so the map shows Northwest Territories as 3.60× the size of Inner Mongolia instead of 1.18×.
• Together Northwest Territories 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, Northwest Territories would have 28.3 million people (it has 41,000). At Northwest Territories's density, Inner Mongolia would have 35,000 (it has 24.0 million).
• Northwest Territories's centre is 21.7° of latitude, about 2,410 km, farther north than Inner Mongolia'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.
• 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.
• Northwest Territories lies about 22° of latitude (roughly 2,410 km) north of Inner Mongolia.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Northwest Territories would have about 32,831,160 m² and each person in Inner Mongolia about 47,590 m².
• Laid side by side, Northwest Territories and Inner Mongolia would cover 2,493,000 km², 1.07× the size of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• Together they have 24.1 million people, about as many people as Syria.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2021 and Wikidata 2020. 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%.
• 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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