Pernambuco is 40.9× the size of Kanagawa

What fits

• Kanagawa fits inside Pernambuco about 40.9 times by area.
• Pernambuco is larger by 95,200 km² (36,800 mi²), which is 3,995% of the area of Kanagawa.
• Measured in Belgiums: Pernambuco is about 3.18, Kanagawa about 0.08.

How they differ

• Pernambuco is larger, but Kanagawa has the larger population: 9.2 million against 9.1 million, 1.02× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 3,865 in Kanagawa against 93 in Pernambuco: Kanagawa is 41.7× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 17,000 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Pernambuco at 8°S is drawn about 1.0× too large and Kanagawa at 35°N about 1.5×, so the map shows Pernambuco as 27.8× the size of Kanagawa instead of 40.9×.
• Together Pernambuco and Kanagawa cover 100,000 km², close to the size of South Korea (98,500 km², 1.5% smaller).
• The gap between them, 95,200 km², is about the size of Liberia (95,300 km²).
• At Kanagawa's density, Pernambuco would have 377.4 million people (it has 9.1 million). At Pernambuco's density, Kanagawa would have 221,000 (it has 9.2 million).
• Kanagawa's centre is 43.7° of latitude, about 4,860 km, farther north than Pernambuco's.
• Pernambuco is the 19th largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 1.2% of its area; it is the 6th most densely populated of them.
• Kanagawa is the 43rd largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 0.6% of its area; it is the 3rd most densely populated of them.
• Kanagawa lies about 44° of latitude (roughly 4,860 km) north of Pernambuco, on the other side of the equator.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Pernambuco would have about 10,780 m² and each person in Kanagawa about 260 m².
• Laid side by side, Pernambuco and Kanagawa would cover 100,000 km², about the same size as South Korea.
• Together they have 18.3 million people, about as many people as the Netherlands.
• Kanagawa is drawn from 83 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 2022 and Wikidata 2020. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 98,900 km² agrees with our measured area of 97,600 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 2,420 km² agrees with our measured area of 2,380 km², to within 2%.

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