Tasmania (Australia) is 1.97× the size of North Rhine-Westphalia

Tasmania (Australia) (state of Australia) covers about 68,100 km² (26,300 mi²) and North Rhine-Westphalia (state of Germany) about 34,500 km² (13,300 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

68,100km²Tasmania (Australia)
34,500km²North Rhine-Westphalia

100 km

Tasmania (Australia)
North Rhine-Westphalia

What fits

North Rhine-Westphalia is 51% of the size of Tasmania (Australia).
Tasmania (Australia) is larger by 33,600 km² (13,000 mi²), which is 97% of the area of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Measured in Belgiums: Tasmania (Australia) is about 2.22, North Rhine-Westphalia about 1.13.

How they differ

Tasmania (Australia) is larger, but North Rhine-Westphalia has the larger population: 17.9 million against 540,000, 33.2× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 518 in North Rhine-Westphalia against 7.9 in Tasmania (Australia): North Rhine-Westphalia is 65.4× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 16,800 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Tasmania (Australia) at 42°S is drawn about 1.8× too large and North Rhine-Westphalia at 51°N about 2.6×, so the map shows Tasmania (Australia) as 1.38× the size of North Rhine-Westphalia instead of 1.97×.
Together Tasmania (Australia) and North Rhine-Westphalia cover 103,000 km², close to the size of Iceland (102,000 km², 0.3% smaller).
The gap between them, 33,600 km², is about the size of Moldova (33,200 km²).
At North Rhine-Westphalia's density, Tasmania (Australia) would have 35.3 million people (it has 540,000). At Tasmania (Australia)'s density, North Rhine-Westphalia would have 274,000 (it has 17.9 million).
North Rhine-Westphalia's centre is 93.4° of latitude, about 10,390 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.
North Rhine-Westphalia is the 4th largest of the 16 states of Germany and covers 9.7% of its area; it is the 4th most densely populated of them.
North Rhine-Westphalia lies about 93° of latitude (roughly 10,400 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 North Rhine-Westphalia about 1,930 m².
Laid side by side, Tasmania (Australia) and North Rhine-Westphalia would cover 103,000 km², about the same size as Iceland.
Together they have 18.4 million people, about as many people as the Netherlands.

Side by side

	Tasmania (Australia)	North Rhine-Westphalia
Is a	StateAustralia	StateGermany
Area, measured	68,100 km²26,300 mi²	34,500 km²13,300 mi²
Official area	68,400 km²Wikidata	34,100 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	7th of 8in Australia	4th of 16in Germany
Population	540,000Wikidata, 2020	17.9 millionWikidata, 2022
Rank by population	6th of 8in Australia	1st of 16in Germany
Density	7.9 per km²	518 per km²
Capital	Hobart	Düsseldorf
Latitude range	44°S to 40°S	50°N to 53°N

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 34,100 km² agrees with our measured area of 34,500 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. A region is drawn whole, every island included; a country is its main territory.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded.
Drawing: Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and the two can be laid over each other.
Data built: 2026-11-12

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