Paraná is 1.09× the size of North Dakota

What fits

• North Dakota is 92% of the size of Paraná.
• Paraná is larger by 15,900 km² (6,150 mi²), which is 8.7% of the area of North Dakota.
• Measured in Belgiums: Paraná is about 6.48, North Dakota about 5.96.

How they differ

• Paraná also has the larger population: 11.4 million against 779,000, 14.7× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 58 in Paraná against 4.3 in North Dakota: Paraná is 13.5× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 9,380 km apart.
• On a standard web map North Dakota looks larger than Paraná: Paraná at 25°S is drawn about 1.2× too large and North Dakota at 47°N about 2.2×, so the map shows North Dakota as 1.66× the size of Paraná, when Paraná is 1.09× the size of North Dakota.
• Together Paraná and North Dakota cover 381,000 km², close to the size of Norway (382,000 km², 0.2% bigger).
• The gap between them, 15,900 km², is about the size of East Timor (15,100 km²).
• At North Dakota's density, Paraná would have 847,000 people (it has 11.4 million). At Paraná's density, North Dakota would have 10.5 million (it has 779,000).
• North Dakota's centre is 72.1° of latitude, about 8,020 km, farther north than Paraná's.
• Paraná is the 15th largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 2.3% of its area; it is the 12th most densely populated of them.
• North Dakota is the 18th largest of the 51 states and districts of the United States and covers 1.9% of its area; it is the 48th most densely populated of them.
• North Dakota lies about 72° of latitude (roughly 8,020 km) north of Paraná, on the other side of the equator.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Paraná would have about 17,360 m² and each person in North Dakota about 234,560 m².
• Laid side by side, Paraná and North Dakota would cover 381,000 km², about the same size as Norway.
• Together they have 12.2 million people, about as many people as Bolivia.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2020. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 199,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 199,000 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 183,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 183,000 km², to within 2%.

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