Tasmania (Australia) is 1.60× the size of Jammu and Kashmir

What fits

• Jammu and Kashmir is 62% of the size of Tasmania (Australia).
• Tasmania (Australia) is larger by 25,600 km² (9,870 mi²), which is 60% of the area of Jammu and Kashmir.
• Measured in Belgiums: Tasmania (Australia) is about 2.22, Jammu and Kashmir about 1.39.

How they differ

• Tasmania (Australia) is larger, but Jammu and Kashmir has the larger population: 12.3 million against 540,000, 22.7× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 288 in Jammu and Kashmir against 7.9 in Tasmania (Australia): Jammu and Kashmir is 36.4× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 11,100 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Tasmania (Australia) at 42°S is drawn about 1.8× too large and Jammu and Kashmir at 34°N about 1.4×, so the map shows Tasmania (Australia) as 2.01× the size of Jammu and Kashmir instead of 1.60×.
• Together Tasmania (Australia) and Jammu and Kashmir cover 111,000 km², close to the size of Cuba (110,000 km², 0.7% smaller).
• The gap between them, 25,600 km², is about the size of North Macedonia (25,400 km²).
• At Jammu and Kashmir's density, Tasmania (Australia) would have 19.6 million people (it has 540,000). At Tasmania (Australia)'s density, Jammu and Kashmir would have 337,000 (it has 12.3 million).
• Jammu and Kashmir's centre is 75.5° of latitude, about 8,390 km, farther north than Tasmania (Australia)'s.
• Tasmania (Australia) is the 7th largest of the 8 states and territories of Australia and covers 0.9% of its area; it is the 4th most densely populated of them.
• Jammu and Kashmir is the 22nd largest of the 36 states and union territories of India and covers 1.4% of its area; it is the 22nd most densely populated of them.
• Jammu and Kashmir lies about 75° of latitude (roughly 8,390 km) north of Tasmania (Australia), on the other side of the equator.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Tasmania (Australia) would have about 126,230 m² and each person in Jammu and Kashmir about 3,470 m².
• Laid side by side, Tasmania (Australia) and Jammu and Kashmir would cover 111,000 km², about the same size as Cuba.
• Together they have 12.8 million people, about as many people as South Sudan.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2011. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 68,400 km² agrees with our measured area of 68,100 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 42,200 km² agrees with our measured area of 42,600 km², to within 2%.

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