Tasmania (Australia) is 1.35× the size of Punjab

Tasmania (Australia) (state of Australia) covers about 68,100 km² (26,300 mi²) and Punjab (state of India) about 50,400 km² (19,500 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

68,100km²Tasmania (Australia)
50,400km²Punjab

100 km

Tasmania (Australia)
Punjab

What fits

Punjab is 74% of the size of Tasmania (Australia).
Tasmania (Australia) is larger by 17,700 km² (6,850 mi²), which is 35% of the area of Punjab.
Measured in Belgiums: Tasmania (Australia) is about 2.22, Punjab about 1.64.

How they differ

Tasmania (Australia) is larger, but Punjab has the larger population: 27.7 million against 540,000, 51.4× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 551 in Punjab against 7.9 in Tasmania (Australia): Punjab is 69.5× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 10,900 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Tasmania (Australia) at 42°S is drawn about 1.8× too large and Punjab at 31°N about 1.4×, so the map shows Tasmania (Australia) as 1.80× the size of Punjab instead of 1.35×.
Together Tasmania (Australia) and Punjab cover 118,000 km², close to the size of Malawi (119,000 km², 0.8% bigger).
The gap between them, 17,700 km², is about the size of Kuwait (17,500 km²).
At Punjab's density, Tasmania (Australia) would have 37.5 million people (it has 540,000). At Tasmania (Australia)'s density, Punjab would have 399,000 (it has 27.7 million).
Punjab's centre is 72.8° of latitude, about 8,090 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.
Punjab is the 20th largest of the 36 states and union territories of India and covers 1.6% of its area; it is the 12th most densely populated of them.
Punjab lies about 73° of latitude (roughly 8,090 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 Punjab about 1,820 m².
Laid side by side, Tasmania (Australia) and Punjab would cover 118,000 km², about the same size as Malawi.
Together they have 28.3 million people, about as many people as Yemen.

Side by side

	Tasmania (Australia)	Punjab
Is a	StateAustralia	StateIndia
Area, measured	68,100 km²26,300 mi²	50,400 km²19,500 mi²
Official area	68,400 km²Wikidata	50,400 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	7th of 8in Australia	20th of 36in India
Population	540,000Wikidata, 2020	27.7 millionWikidata, 2011
Rank by population	6th of 8in Australia	17th of 36in India
Density	7.9 per km²	551 per km²
Capital	Hobart	Chandigarh
Latitude range	44°S to 40°S	30°N to 33°N

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 50,400 km² agrees with our measured area of 50,400 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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