Shiga is 7.62× the size of Puducherry

What fits

• Puducherry fits inside Shiga about 7.62 times by area.
• Shiga is larger by 3,480 km² (1,340 mi²), which is 662% of the area of Puducherry.
• Measured in Belgiums: Shiga is about 0.13, Puducherry about 0.02.

How they differ

• Shiga also has the larger population: 1.4 million against 1.4 million, 1.01× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 2,650 in Puducherry against 352 in Shiga: Puducherry is 7.53× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 6,280 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Shiga at 35°N is drawn about 1.5× too large and Puducherry at 12°N about 1.0×, so the map shows Shiga as 10.9× the size of Puducherry instead of 7.62×.
• Together Shiga and Puducherry cover 4,540 km², close to the size of Trinidad and Tobago (5,120 km², 13% bigger).
• The gap between them, 3,480 km², is about the size of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (3,320 km²).
• At Puducherry's density, Shiga would have 10.6 million people (it has 1.4 million). At Shiga's density, Puducherry would have 185,000 (it has 1.4 million).
• Shiga's centre is 23.2° of latitude, about 2,580 km, farther north than Puducherry's.
• Shiga is the 37th largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 1.1% of its area; it is the 14th most densely populated of them.
• Puducherry is the 34th largest of the 36 states and union territories of India and covers less than 0.1% of its area; it is the 3rd most densely populated of them.
• Shiga lies about 23° of latitude (roughly 2,580 km) north of Puducherry.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Shiga would have about 2,840 m² and each person in Puducherry about 380 m².
• Laid side by side, Shiga and Puducherry would cover 4,540 km², 89% of the size of Trinidad and Tobago.
• Together they have 2.8 million people, about as many people as Albania.
• Puducherry is drawn from 37 points: at a size under 2,500 km² the outline is a sketch, so the overlap shows the proportions rather than the exact shape.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2021 and Wikidata 2011. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 4,020 km² agrees with our measured area of 4,010 km², to within 2%.
• Our measured 526 km² is 7.0% above Wikidata's official figure of 492 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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