Umbria is 1.26× the size of Shanghai

What fits

• Shanghai is 79% of the size of Umbria.
• Umbria is larger by 1,750 km² (677 mi²), which is 26% of the area of Shanghai.
• Measured in Belgiums: Umbria is about 0.28, Shanghai about 0.22.

How they differ

• Umbria is larger, but Shanghai has the larger population: 24.9 million against 882,000, 28.2× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 3,687 in Shanghai against 104 in Umbria: Shanghai is 35.5× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 9,050 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Umbria at 43°N is drawn about 1.9× too large and Shanghai at 31°N about 1.4×, so the map shows Umbria as 1.72× the size of Shanghai instead of 1.26×.
• Together Umbria and Shanghai cover 15,200 km², close to the size of East Timor (15,100 km², 1.1% smaller).
• The gap between them, 1,750 km², is about the size of Comoros (1,670 km²).
• At Shanghai's density, Umbria would have 31.3 million people (it has 882,000). At Umbria's density, Shanghai would have 700,000 (it has 24.9 million).
• Umbria's centre is 11.8° of latitude, about 1,310 km, farther north than Shanghai's.
• Umbria is the 16th largest of the 20 regions of Italy and covers 2.8% of its area; it is the 15th most densely populated of them.
• Shanghai is the 31st largest of the 31 provinces and regions of China and covers less than 0.1% of its area; it is the most densely populated of them.
• Umbria lies about 12° of latitude (roughly 1,310 km) north of Shanghai.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Umbria would have about 9,640 m² and each person in Shanghai about 270 m².
• Laid side by side, Umbria and Shanghai would cover 15,200 km², about the same size as East Timor.
• Together they have 25.8 million people, about as many people as North Korea.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2019 and Wikidata 2020. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 8,460 km² agrees with our measured area of 8,500 km², to within 2%.
• Our measured 6,750 km² is 6.4% above Wikidata's official figure of 6,340 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.

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