Phang Nga is 1.73× the size of Australian Capital Territory

What fits

• Australian Capital Territory is 58% of the size of Phang Nga.
• Phang Nga is larger by 1,710 km² (659 mi²), which is 73% of the area of Australian Capital Territory.
• Measured in Belgiums: Phang Nga is about 0.13, Australian Capital Territory about 0.08.

How they differ

• Phang Nga is larger, but Australian Capital Territory has the larger population: 482,000 against 268,000, 1.80× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 205 in Australian Capital Territory against 66 in Phang Nga: Australian Capital Territory is 3.10× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 7,220 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Phang Nga at 9°N is drawn about 1.0× too large and Australian Capital Territory at 35°S about 1.5×, so the map shows Phang Nga as 1.17× the size of Australian Capital Territory instead of 1.73×.
• Together Phang Nga and Australian Capital Territory cover 6,400 km², close to the size of Palestine (6,070 km², 5.2% smaller).
• The gap between them, 1,710 km², is about the size of Comoros (1,670 km²).
• At Australian Capital Territory's density, Phang Nga would have 832,000 people (it has 268,000). At Phang Nga's density, Australian Capital Territory would have 155,000 (it has 482,000).
• Phang Nga's centre is 44.2° of latitude, about 4,910 km, farther north than Australian Capital Territory's.
• Phang Nga is the 54th largest of the 77 provinces of Thailand and covers 0.8% of its area; it is the 68th most densely populated of them.
• Australian Capital Territory is the 8th largest of the 8 states and territories of Australia and covers less than 0.1% of its area; it is the most densely populated of them.
• Phang Nga lies about 44° of latitude (roughly 4,910 km) north of Australian Capital Territory, on the other side of the equator.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Phang Nga would have about 15,120 m² and each person in Australian Capital Territory about 4,880 m².
• Laid side by side, Phang Nga and Australian Capital Territory would cover 6,400 km², 1.12× the size of Brunei.
• Together they have 750,000 people, 95% as many people as Bhutan.
• Australian Capital Territory 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 2020 and Wikidata 2024. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Our measured 4,060 km² is 2.8% below Wikidata's official figure of 4,170 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.
• Wikidata's official figure of 2,360 km² agrees with our measured area of 2,350 km², to within 2%.

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