Victoria is 1.30× the size of Guangdong

What fits

• Guangdong is 77% of the size of Victoria.
• Victoria is larger by 52,500 km² (20,300 mi²), which is 30% of the area of Guangdong.
• Measured in Belgiums: Victoria is about 7.43, Guangdong about 5.72.

How they differ

• Victoria is larger, but Guangdong has the larger population: 126.0 million against 7.0 million, 18.0× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 718 in Guangdong against 31 in Victoria: Guangdong is 23.3× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 7,440 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Victoria at 37°S is drawn about 1.6× too large and Guangdong at 23°N about 1.2×, so the map shows Victoria as 1.71× the size of Guangdong instead of 1.30×.
• Together Victoria and Guangdong cover 403,000 km², close to the size of Paraguay (400,000 km², 0.9% smaller).
• The gap between them, 52,500 km², is about the size of Bosnia and Herzegovina (51,800 km²).
• At Guangdong's density, Victoria would have 163.7 million people (it has 7.0 million). At Victoria's density, Guangdong would have 5.4 million (it has 126.0 million).
• Guangdong's centre is 60.2° of latitude, about 6,700 km, farther north than Victoria's.
• Victoria is the 6th largest of the 8 states and territories of Australia and covers 3.0% of its area; it is the 2nd most densely populated of them.
• Guangdong is the 15th largest of the 31 provinces and regions of China and covers 1.9% of its area; it is the 5th most densely populated of them.
• Guangdong lies about 60° of latitude (roughly 6,700 km) north of Victoria, on the other side of the equator.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Victoria would have about 32,510 m² and each person in Guangdong about 1,390 m².
• Laid side by side, Victoria and Guangdong would cover 403,000 km², about the same size as Paraguay.
• Together they have 133.0 million people, about as many people as Mexico.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2024 and Wikidata 2020. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 227,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 228,000 km², to within 2%.
• Our measured 175,000 km² is 2.4% below Wikidata's official figure of 180,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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