Okayama is 8.96× the size of Hamburg

What fits

• Hamburg fits inside Okayama about 8.96 times by area.
• Okayama is larger by 6,160 km² (2,380 mi²), which is 796% of the area of Hamburg.
• Measured in Belgiums: Okayama is about 0.23, Hamburg about 0.03.

How they differ

• Okayama is larger, but Hamburg has the larger population: 1.9 million against 1.9 million, 1.01× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 2,446 in Hamburg against 271 in Okayama: Hamburg is 9.03× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 8,790 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Okayama at 35°N is drawn about 1.5× too large and Hamburg at 54°N about 2.8×, so the map shows Okayama as 4.70× the size of Hamburg instead of 8.96×.
• Together Okayama and Hamburg cover 7,710 km², close to the size of Palestine (6,070 km², 21% smaller).
• The gap between them, 6,160 km², is about the size of Palestine (6,070 km²).
• At Hamburg's density, Okayama would have 17.0 million people (it has 1.9 million). At Okayama's density, Hamburg would have 210,000 (it has 1.9 million).
• Hamburg's centre is 18.6° of latitude, about 2,070 km, farther north than Okayama's.
• Okayama is the 18th largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 1.9% of its area; it is the 24th most densely populated of them.
• Hamburg is the 15th largest of the 16 states of Germany and covers 0.2% of its area; it is the 2nd most densely populated of them.
• Hamburg lies about 19° of latitude (roughly 2,070 km) north of Okayama.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Okayama would have about 3,690 m² and each person in Hamburg about 410 m².
• Laid side by side, Okayama and Hamburg would cover 7,710 km², 77% of the size of Lebanon.
• Together they have 3.8 million people, about as many people as Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• Hamburg is drawn from 52 points: at a size under 2,500 km² the outline is a sketch, so the overlap shows the proportions rather than the exact shape.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2021 and Wikidata 2022. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Our measured 6,930 km² is 2.5% below Wikidata's official figure of 7,110 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.
• Our measured 774 km² is 2.5% above Wikidata's official figure of 755 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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