Tasmania (Australia) is 1.77× the size of Yucatán

What fits

• Yucatán is 56% of the size of Tasmania (Australia).
• Tasmania (Australia) is larger by 29,700 km² (11,500 mi²), which is 77% of the area of Yucatán.
• Measured in Belgiums: Tasmania (Australia) is about 2.22, Yucatán about 1.25.

How they differ

• Tasmania (Australia) is larger, but Yucatán has the larger population: 2.3 million against 540,000, 4.30× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 60 in Yucatán against 7.9 in Tasmania (Australia): Yucatán is 7.63× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 14,400 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Tasmania (Australia) at 42°S is drawn about 1.8× too large and Yucatán at 21°N about 1.1×, so the map shows Tasmania (Australia) as 2.80× the size of Yucatán instead of 1.77×.
• Together Tasmania (Australia) and Yucatán cover 107,000 km², close to the size of Guatemala (109,000 km², 2.2% bigger).
• The gap between them, 29,700 km², is about the size of Armenia (29,600 km²).
• At Yucatán's density, Tasmania (Australia) would have 4.1 million people (it has 540,000). At Tasmania (Australia)'s density, Yucatán would have 304,000 (it has 2.3 million).
• Yucatán's centre is 62.7° of latitude, about 6,970 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.
• Yucatán is the 20th largest of the 32 states of Mexico and covers 2.0% of its area; it is the 17th most densely populated of them.
• Yucatán lies about 63° of latitude (roughly 6,970 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 Yucatán about 16,540 m².
• Laid side by side, Tasmania (Australia) and Yucatán would cover 107,000 km², about the same size as Guatemala.
• Together they have 2.9 million people, about as many people as Lithuania.

Side by side

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

• Wikidata's official figure of 68,400 km² agrees with our measured area of 68,100 km², to within 2%.
• Our measured 38,400 km² is 3.1% below Wikidata's official figure of 39,600 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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