Northwest Territories is 1.05× the size of Peru

What fits

• Peru is 96% of the size of Northwest Territories.
• Northwest Territories is larger by 58,500 km² (22,600 mi²), which is 4.5% of the area of Peru.
• Measured in Belgiums: Northwest Territories is about 44.0, Peru about 42.1.

How they differ

• Northwest Territories is larger, but Peru has the larger population: 34.2 million against 41,000, 832× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 26 in Peru against 0.0 in Northwest Territories: Peru is 869× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 9,070 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Northwest Territories at 66°N is drawn about 5.9× too large and Peru at 9°S about 1.0×, so the map shows Northwest Territories as 6.04× the size of Peru instead of 1.05×.
• Together Northwest Territories and Peru cover 2,638,000 km², close to the size of Kazakhstan (2,714,000 km², 2.9% bigger).
• The gap between them, 58,500 km², is about the size of Togo (56,900 km²).
• At Peru's density, Northwest Territories would have 35.7 million people (it has 41,000). At Northwest Territories's density, Peru would have 39,000 (it has 34.2 million).
• Northwest Territories's centre is 74.8° of latitude, about 8,320 km, farther north than Peru'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.
• Peru ranks 21st of 246 countries and territories by area.
• Northwest Territories lies about 75° of latitude (roughly 8,320 km) north of Peru, on the other side of the equator.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Northwest Territories would have about 32,831,160 m² and each person in Peru about 37,760 m².
• Laid side by side, Northwest Territories and Peru would cover 2,638,000 km², about the same size as Kazakhstan.
• Together they have 34.2 million people, about as many people as Malaysia.
• Counted as a country, Northwest Territories would rank 20th by area and 211th by population.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2021 and Wikidata 2025. 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 1,285,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,290,000 km², to within 2%.

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