Sinaloa is 1.21× the size of Lower Saxony

What fits

• Lower Saxony is 82% of the size of Sinaloa.
• Sinaloa is larger by 10,100 km² (3,910 mi²), which is 21% of the area of Lower Saxony.
• Measured in Belgiums: Sinaloa is about 1.88, Lower Saxony about 1.55.

How they differ

• Sinaloa is larger, but Lower Saxony has the larger population: 7.9 million against 3.0 million, 2.68× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 167 in Lower Saxony against 51 in Sinaloa: Lower Saxony is 3.25× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 9,430 km apart.
• On a standard web map Lower Saxony looks larger than Sinaloa: Sinaloa at 25°N is drawn about 1.2× too large and Lower Saxony at 53°N about 2.7×, so the map shows Lower Saxony as 1.85× the size of Sinaloa, when Sinaloa is 1.21× the size of Lower Saxony.
• Together Sinaloa and Lower Saxony cover 105,000 km², close to the size of Iceland (102,000 km², 2.8% smaller).
• The gap between them, 10,100 km², is about the size of Lebanon (10,000 km²).
• At Lower Saxony's density, Sinaloa would have 9.6 million people (it has 3.0 million). At Sinaloa's density, Lower Saxony would have 2.4 million (it has 7.9 million).
• Lower Saxony's centre is 27.7° of latitude, about 3,090 km, farther north than Sinaloa's.
• Sinaloa is the 17th largest of the 32 states of Mexico and covers 2.9% of its area; it is the 19th most densely populated of them.
• Lower Saxony is the 2nd largest of the 16 states of Germany and covers 13% of its area; it is the 12th most densely populated of them.
• Lower Saxony lies about 28° of latitude (roughly 3,090 km) north of Sinaloa.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Sinaloa would have about 19,450 m² and each person in Lower Saxony about 5,990 m².
• Laid side by side, Sinaloa and Lower Saxony would cover 105,000 km², about the same size as Iceland.
• Together they have 10.9 million people, about as many people as Czechia.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2015 and Wikidata 2022. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 57,400 km² agrees with our measured area of 57,700 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 47,600 km² agrees with our measured area of 47,600 km², to within 2%.

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