Sergipe is 1.74× the size of Niigata

What fits

• Niigata is 58% of the size of Sergipe.
• Sergipe is larger by 9,150 km² (3,530 mi²), which is 74% of the area of Niigata.
• Measured in Belgiums: Sergipe is about 0.70, Niigata about 0.41.

How they differ

• Sergipe also has the larger population: 2.2 million against 2.2 million, 1.01× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 176 in Niigata against 102 in Sergipe: Niigata is 1.72× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 17,000 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Sergipe at 11°S is drawn about 1.0× too large and Niigata at 38°N about 1.6×, so the map shows Sergipe as 1.13× the size of Niigata instead of 1.74×.
• Together Sergipe and Niigata cover 34,100 km², close to the size of Moldova (33,200 km², 2.5% smaller).
• The gap between them, 9,150 km², is about the size of Lebanon (10,000 km²).
• At Niigata's density, Sergipe would have 3.8 million people (it has 2.2 million). At Sergipe's density, Niigata would have 1.3 million (it has 2.2 million).
• Niigata's centre is 48.1° of latitude, about 5,350 km, farther north than Sergipe's.
• Sergipe is the 26th largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 0.3% of its area; it is the 5th most densely populated of them.
• Niigata is the 5th largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 3.3% of its area; it is the 34th most densely populated of them.
• Niigata lies about 48° of latitude (roughly 5,350 km) north of Sergipe, on the other side of the equator.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Sergipe would have about 9,780 m² and each person in Niigata about 5,680 m².
• Laid side by side, Sergipe and Niigata would cover 34,100 km², about the same size as Moldova.
• Together they have 4.4 million people, about as many people as Kuwait.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2021. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Our measured 21,600 km² is 2.0% below Wikidata's official figure of 22,100 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.
• Wikidata's official figure of 12,600 km² agrees with our measured area of 12,500 km², to within 2%.

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