Tochigi is 8.38× the size of Hamburg
Tochigi (prefecture of Japan) covers about 6,480 km² (2,500 mi²) and Hamburg (state of Germany) about 774 km² (299 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.
- 6,480km²Tochigi
- 774km²Hamburg
20 km
- Tochigi
- Hamburg
What fits
- Hamburg fits inside Tochigi about 8.38 times by area.
- Tochigi is larger by 5,710 km² (2,200 mi²), which is 738% of the area of Hamburg.
- Measured in Belgiums: Tochigi is about 0.21, Hamburg about 0.03.
How they differ
- Tochigi also has the larger population: 1.9 million against 1.9 million, 1.02× as many people.
- Per square kilometre that is 2,446 in Hamburg against 297 in Tochigi: Hamburg is 8.22× as densely populated.
- Their centres are about 8,880 km apart.
- A standard web map misstates the comparison: Tochigi at 37°N is drawn about 1.6× too large and Hamburg at 54°N about 2.8×, so the map shows Tochigi as 4.60× the size of Hamburg instead of 8.38×.
- Together Tochigi and Hamburg cover 7,260 km², close to the size of Palestine (6,070 km², 16% smaller).
- The gap between them, 5,710 km², is about the size of Brunei (5,720 km²).
- At Hamburg's density, Tochigi would have 15.9 million people (it has 1.9 million). At Tochigi's density, Hamburg would have 230,000 (it has 1.9 million).
- Hamburg's centre is 16.9° of latitude, about 1,870 km, farther north than Tochigi's.
- Tochigi is the 21st largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 1.7% of its area; it is the 22nd most densely populated of them.
- Hamburg is the 15th largest of the 16 states of Germany and covers 0.2% of its area; it is the 2nd most densely populated of them.
- Hamburg lies about 17° of latitude (roughly 1,870 km) north of Tochigi.
- Shared out evenly, each person in Tochigi would have about 3,360 m² and each person in Hamburg about 410 m².
- Laid side by side, Tochigi and Hamburg would cover 7,260 km², 1.27× the size of Brunei.
- Together they have 3.8 million people, about as many people as Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Hamburg is drawn from 52 points: at a size under 2,500 km² the outline is a sketch, so the overlap shows the proportions rather than the exact shape.
Side by side
| Tochigi | Hamburg | |
|---|---|---|
| Is a | PrefectureJapan | StateGermany |
| Area, measured | 6,480 km²2,500 mi² | 774 km²299 mi² |
| Official area | 6,410 km²Wikidata | 755 km²Wikidata |
| Rank by area | 21st of 47in Japan | 15th of 16in Germany |
| Population | 1.9 millionWikidata, 2021 | 1.9 millionWikidata, 2022 |
| Rank by population | 19th of 47in Japan | 13th of 16in Germany |
| Density | 297 per km² | 2,446 per km² |
| Capital | Utsunomiya | – |
| Latitude range | 36°N to 37°N | 53°N to 54°N |
Population: Wikidata 2021 and Wikidata 2022. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).
- Wikidata's official figure of 6,410 km² agrees with our measured area of 6,480 km², to within 2%.
- Our measured 774 km² is 2.5% above Wikidata's official figure of 755 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.
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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
