Sichuan is 1.18× the size of California

What fits

• California is 85% of the size of Sichuan.
• Sichuan is larger by 75,100 km² (29,000 mi²), which is 18% of the area of California.
• Measured in Belgiums: Sichuan is about 15.8, California about 13.4.

How they differ

• Sichuan also has the larger population: 83.7 million against 39.5 million, 2.12× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 173 in Sichuan against 96 in California: Sichuan is 1.79× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 11,300 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Sichuan at 31°N is drawn about 1.3× too large and California at 37°N about 1.6×, so the map shows Sichuan as 1.01× the size of California instead of 1.18×.
• Together Sichuan and California cover 895,000 km², close to the size of Nigeria (907,000 km², 1.4% bigger).
• The gap between them, 75,100 km², is about the size of Panama (74,500 km²).
• At California's density, Sichuan would have 46.8 million people (it has 83.7 million). At Sichuan's density, California would have 70.7 million (it has 39.5 million).
• California's centre is 6.6° of latitude, about 730 km, farther north than Sichuan's.
• Sichuan is the 5th largest of the 31 provinces and regions of China and covers 5.2% of its area; it is the 22nd most densely populated of them.
• California is the 3rd largest of the 51 states and districts of the United States and covers 4.3% of its area; it is the 12th most densely populated of them.
• California lies about 7° of latitude (roughly 731 km) north of Sichuan.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Sichuan would have about 5,790 m² and each person in California about 10,360 m².
• Laid side by side, Sichuan and California would cover 895,000 km², about the same size as Nigeria.
• Together they have 123.2 million people, about as many people as Japan.

Side by side

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

• Wikidata's official figure of 485,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 485,000 km², to within 2%.
• Our measured 410,000 km² is 3.4% below Wikidata's official figure of 424,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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