Tasmania (Australia) is 1.43× the size of Lower Saxony

What fits

• Lower Saxony is 70% of the size of Tasmania (Australia).
• Tasmania (Australia) is larger by 20,500 km² (7,920 mi²), which is 43% of the area of Lower Saxony.
• Measured in Belgiums: Tasmania (Australia) is about 2.22, Lower Saxony about 1.55.

How they differ

• Tasmania (Australia) is larger, but Lower Saxony has the larger population: 7.9 million against 540,000, 14.7× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 167 in Lower Saxony against 7.9 in Tasmania (Australia): Lower Saxony is 21.1× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 16,600 km apart.
• On a standard web map Lower Saxony looks larger than Tasmania (Australia): Tasmania (Australia) at 42°S is drawn about 1.8× too large and Lower Saxony at 53°N about 2.7×, so the map shows Lower Saxony as 1.06× the size of Tasmania (Australia), when Tasmania (Australia) is 1.43× the size of Lower Saxony.
• Together Tasmania (Australia) and Lower Saxony cover 116,000 km², close to the size of Benin (116,000 km², 0.3% bigger).
• The gap between them, 20,500 km², is about the size of El Salvador (20,500 km²).
• At Lower Saxony's density, Tasmania (Australia) would have 11.4 million people (it has 540,000). At Tasmania (Australia)'s density, Lower Saxony would have 377,000 (it has 7.9 million).
• Lower Saxony's centre is 94.7° of latitude, about 10,530 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.
• 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 95° of latitude (roughly 10,500 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 Lower Saxony about 5,990 m².
• Laid side by side, Tasmania (Australia) and Lower Saxony would cover 116,000 km², about the same size as Benin.
• Together they have 8.5 million people, about as many people as Honduras.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2022. 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 47,600 km² agrees with our measured area of 47,600 km², to within 2%.

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