Rio de Janeiro is 1.03× the size of Jammu and Kashmir

What fits

• Jammu and Kashmir is 97% of the size of Rio de Janeiro.
• Rio de Janeiro is larger by 1,420 km² (550 mi²), which is 3.3% of the area of Jammu and Kashmir.
• Measured in Belgiums: Rio de Janeiro is about 1.43, Jammu and Kashmir about 1.39.

How they differ

• Rio de Janeiro also has the larger population: 16.1 million against 12.3 million, 1.31× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 365 in Rio de Janeiro against 288 in Jammu and Kashmir: Rio de Janeiro is 1.27× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 13,900 km apart.
• On a standard web map Jammu and Kashmir looks larger than Rio de Janeiro: Rio de Janeiro at 22°S is drawn about 1.2× too large and Jammu and Kashmir at 34°N about 1.4×, so the map shows Jammu and Kashmir as 1.19× the size of Rio de Janeiro, when Rio de Janeiro is 1.03× the size of Jammu and Kashmir.
• Together Rio de Janeiro and Jammu and Kashmir cover 86,500 km², close to the size of Azerbaijan (86,200 km², 0.3% smaller).
• The gap between them, 1,420 km², is about the size of Comoros (1,670 km²).
• At Jammu and Kashmir's density, Rio de Janeiro would have 12.7 million people (it has 16.1 million). At Rio de Janeiro's density, Jammu and Kashmir would have 15.5 million (it has 12.3 million).
• Jammu and Kashmir's centre is 55.7° of latitude, about 6,200 km, farther north than Rio de Janeiro's.
• Rio de Janeiro is the 24th largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 0.5% of its area; it is the 2nd most densely populated of them.
• Jammu and Kashmir is the 22nd largest of the 36 states and union territories of India and covers 1.4% of its area; it is the 22nd most densely populated of them.
• Jammu and Kashmir lies about 56° of latitude (roughly 6,200 km) north of Rio de Janeiro, on the other side of the equator.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Rio de Janeiro would have about 2,740 m² and each person in Jammu and Kashmir about 3,470 m².
• Laid side by side, Rio de Janeiro and Jammu and Kashmir would cover 86,500 km², about the same size as Azerbaijan.
• Together they have 28.3 million people, about as many people as Cameroon.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2011. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 43,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 44,000 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 42,200 km² agrees with our measured area of 42,600 km², to within 2%.

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