Samoa is 1.12× the size of Chai Nat
Samoa (Oceania) covers about 2,780 km² (1,070 mi²) and Chai Nat (province of Thailand) about 2,480 km² (958 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.
- 2,780km²Samoa
- 2,480km²Chai Nat
50 km
- Samoa
- Chai Nat
What fits
- Chai Nat is 89% of the size of Samoa.
- Samoa is larger by 300 km² (116 mi²), which is 12% of the area of Chai Nat.
- Measured in Belgiums: Samoa is about 0.09, Chai Nat about 0.08.
How they differ
- Samoa is larger, but Chai Nat has the larger population: 322,000 against 200,000, 1.61× as many people.
- Per square kilometre that is 130 in Chai Nat against 72 in Samoa: Chai Nat is 1.81× as densely populated.
- Their centres are about 10,200 km apart.
- Together Samoa and Chai Nat cover 5,260 km², close to the size of Cyprus (5,400 km², 2.5% bigger).
- The gap between them, 300 km², is about the size of Malta (326 km²).
- At Chai Nat's density, Samoa would have 361,000 people (it has 200,000). At Samoa's density, Chai Nat would have 178,000 (it has 322,000).
- Chai Nat's centre is 28.9° of latitude, about 3,210 km, farther north than Samoa's.
- Samoa ranks 180th of 246 countries and territories by area.
- Chai Nat is the 65th largest of the 77 provinces of Thailand and covers 0.5% of its area; it is the 33rd most densely populated of them.
- Chai Nat lies about 29° of latitude (roughly 3,210 km) north of Samoa, on the other side of the equator.
- Shared out evenly, each person in Samoa would have about 13,900 m² and each person in Chai Nat about 7,690 m².
- Laid side by side, Samoa and Chai Nat would cover 5,260 km², about the same size as Cyprus.
- Together they have 522,000 people, 94% as many people as Cape Verde.
- Chai Nat is drawn from 60 points: at a size under 2,500 km² the outline is a sketch, so the overlap shows the proportions rather than the exact shape.
- Counted as a country, Chai Nat would rank 181st by area and 178th by population.
Side by side
| Samoa | Chai Nat | |
|---|---|---|
| Is a | CountryOceania | ProvinceThailand |
| Area, measured | 2,780 km²1,070 mi² | 2,480 km²958 mi² |
| Official area | 2,840 km²Wikidata | 2,500 km²Wikidata |
| Rank by area | 179th of 239worldwide | 65th of 77in Thailand |
| Population | 200,000Wikidata, 2021 | 322,000Wikidata, 2020 |
| Rank by population | 183rd of 237worldwide | 69th of 77in Thailand |
| Density | 72 per km² | 130 per km² |
| Capital | Apia | Chai Nat |
| Latitude range | 14°S to 13°S | 15°N to 15°N |
Population: Wikidata 2021 and Wikidata 2020. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).
- Our measured 2,780 km² is 2.2% below Wikidata's official figure of 2,840 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.
- Wikidata's official figure of 2,500 km² agrees with our measured area of 2,480 km², to within 2%.
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Sources and method
- Outlines
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain for the region; Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, public domain
- Boundary
- De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. A region is drawn whole, every island included; a country is its main territory.
- Area
- Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded.
- Drawing
- Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and the two can be laid over each other.
- Data built
- 2026-11-12