Samoa is 1.17× the size of Kanagawa

What fits

• Kanagawa is 86% of the size of Samoa.
• Samoa is larger by 396 km² (153 mi²), which is 17% of the area of Kanagawa.
• Measured in Belgiums: Samoa is about 0.09, Kanagawa about 0.08.

How they differ

• Samoa is larger, but Kanagawa has the larger population: 9.2 million against 200,000, 46.1× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 3,865 in Kanagawa against 72 in Samoa: Kanagawa is 53.7× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 7,480 km apart.
• On a standard web map Kanagawa looks larger than Samoa: Samoa at 14°S is drawn about 1.1× too large and Kanagawa at 35°N about 1.5×, so the map shows Kanagawa as 1.22× the size of Samoa, when Samoa is 1.17× the size of Kanagawa.
• Together Samoa and Kanagawa cover 5,160 km², close to the size of Trinidad and Tobago (5,120 km², 0.8% smaller).
• The gap between them, 396 km², is about the size of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (368 km²).
• At Kanagawa's density, Samoa would have 10.7 million people (it has 200,000). At Samoa's density, Kanagawa would have 172,000 (it has 9.2 million).
• Kanagawa's centre is 49.2° of latitude, about 5,470 km, farther north than Samoa's.
• Samoa ranks 180th of 246 countries and territories by area.
• Kanagawa is the 43rd largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 0.6% of its area; it is the 3rd most densely populated of them.
• Kanagawa lies about 49° of latitude (roughly 5,470 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 Kanagawa about 260 m².
• Laid side by side, Samoa and Kanagawa would cover 5,160 km², about the same size as Trinidad and Tobago.
• Together they have 9.4 million people, about as many people as Tajikistan.
• Kanagawa is drawn from 83 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, Kanagawa would rank 181st by area and 96th by population.

Side by side

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 2,420 km² agrees with our measured area of 2,380 km², to within 2%.

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