Puducherry is 1.27× the size of Samut Songkhram

What fits

• Samut Songkhram is 79% of the size of Puducherry.
• Puducherry is larger by 111 km² (43.0 mi²), which is 27% of the area of Samut Songkhram.
• Measured in Belgiums: Puducherry is about 0.02, Samut Songkhram about 0.01.

How they differ

• Puducherry also has the larger population: 1.4 million against 192,000, 7.26× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 2,650 in Puducherry against 463 in Samut Songkhram: Puducherry is 5.72× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 2,290 km apart.
• Together Puducherry and Samut Songkhram cover 941 km², close to the size of Hong Kong (1,040 km², 10% bigger).
• The gap between them, 111 km², is about the size of Maldives (109 km²).
• At Samut Songkhram's density, Puducherry would have 244,000 people (it has 1.4 million). At Puducherry's density, Samut Songkhram would have 1.1 million (it has 192,000).
• Samut Songkhram's centre is 1.4° of latitude, about 160 km, farther north than Puducherry's.
• Puducherry is the 34th largest of the 36 states and union territories of India and covers less than 0.1% of its area; it is the 3rd most densely populated of them.
• Samut Songkhram is the 77th largest of the 77 provinces of Thailand and covers less than 0.1% of its area; it is the 7th most densely populated of them.
• Both lie at about the same latitude, 12°N and 13°N.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Puducherry would have about 380 m² and each person in Samut Songkhram about 2,160 m².
• Laid side by side, Puducherry and Samut Songkhram would cover 941 km², 91% of the size of São Tomé and Príncipe.
• Together they have 1.6 million people, 1.13× as many people as East Timor.
• Puducherry is drawn from 37 points and Samut Songkhram is drawn from 25 points: at sizes under 2,500 km² the outlines are a sketch, so the overlap shows the proportions rather than the exact shape.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2011 and Wikidata 2020. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Our measured 526 km² is 7.0% above Wikidata's official figure of 492 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.
• Wikidata's official figure of 417 km² agrees with our measured area of 415 km², to within 2%.

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