Sa Kaeo is 1.05× the size of Shanghai

What fits

• Shanghai is 95% of the size of Sa Kaeo.
• Sa Kaeo is larger by 337 km² (130 mi²), which is 5.0% of the area of Shanghai.
• Measured in Belgiums: Sa Kaeo is about 0.23, Shanghai about 0.22.

How they differ

• Sa Kaeo is larger, but Shanghai has the larger population: 24.9 million against 561,000, 44.3× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 3,687 in Shanghai against 79 in Sa Kaeo: Shanghai is 46.6× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 2,750 km apart.
• On a standard web map Shanghai looks larger than Sa Kaeo: Sa Kaeo at 14°N is drawn about 1.1× too large and Shanghai at 31°N about 1.4×, so the map shows Shanghai as 1.23× the size of Sa Kaeo, when Sa Kaeo is 1.05× the size of Shanghai.
• Together Sa Kaeo and Shanghai cover 13,800 km², close to the size of Montenegro (13,700 km², 0.7% smaller).
• The gap between them, 337 km², is about the size of Grenada (347 km²).
• At Shanghai's density, Sa Kaeo would have 26.1 million people (it has 561,000). At Sa Kaeo's density, Shanghai would have 534,000 (it has 24.9 million).
• Shanghai's centre is 17.4° of latitude, about 1,940 km, farther north than Sa Kaeo's.
• Sa Kaeo is the 27th largest of the 77 provinces of Thailand and covers 1.4% of its area; it is the 62nd most densely populated of them.
• Shanghai is the 31st largest of the 31 provinces and regions of China and covers less than 0.1% of its area; it is the most densely populated of them.
• Shanghai lies about 17° of latitude (roughly 1,940 km) north of Sa Kaeo.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Sa Kaeo would have about 12,630 m² and each person in Shanghai about 270 m².
• Laid side by side, Sa Kaeo and Shanghai would cover 13,800 km², about the same size as Montenegro.
• Together they have 25.4 million people, 96% as many people as North Korea.

Side by side

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

• Wikidata's official figure of 7,200 km² agrees with our measured area of 7,080 km², to within 2%.
• Our measured 6,750 km² is 6.4% above Wikidata's official figure of 6,340 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.

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