South Australia is 1,272× the size of Hamburg

What fits

• Hamburg fits inside South Australia about 1,272 times by area.
• South Australia is larger by 983,000 km² (380,000 mi²), which is 127,065% of the area of Hamburg.
• Measured in Belgiums: South Australia is about 32.1, Hamburg about 0.03.

How they differ

• South Australia is larger, but Hamburg has the larger population: 1.9 million against 1.9 million, 1.00× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 2,446 in Hamburg against 1.9 in South Australia: Hamburg is 1,272× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 15,000 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: South Australia at 30°S is drawn about 1.3× too large and Hamburg at 54°N about 2.8×, so the map shows South Australia as 600× the size of Hamburg instead of 1,272×.
• Together South Australia and Hamburg cover 985,000 km², close to the size of Egypt (1,001,000 km², 1.7% bigger).
• The gap between them, 983,000 km², is about the size of Egypt (1,001,000 km²).
• At Hamburg's density, South Australia would have 2.41 billion people (it has 1.9 million). At South Australia's density, Hamburg would have 1,490 (it has 1.9 million).
• Hamburg's centre is 83.6° of latitude, about 9,300 km, farther north than South Australia's.
• South Australia is the 4th largest of the 8 states and territories of Australia and covers 13% of its area; it is the 6th most densely populated of them.
• Hamburg is the 15th largest of the 16 states of Germany and covers 0.2% of its area; it is the 2nd most densely populated of them.
• Hamburg lies about 84° of latitude (roughly 9,300 km) north of South Australia, on the other side of the equator.
• Shared out evenly, each person in South Australia would have about 520,100 m² and each person in Hamburg about 410 m².
• Laid side by side, South Australia and Hamburg would cover 985,000 km², about the same size as Egypt.
• Together they have 3.8 million people, about as many people as Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• Hamburg is drawn from 52 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 2024 and Wikidata 2022. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 984,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 984,000 km², to within 2%.
• Our measured 774 km² is 2.5% above Wikidata's official figure of 755 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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