Victoria is 1.66× the size of New York

What fits

• New York is 60% of the size of Victoria.
• Victoria is larger by 91,000 km² (35,100 mi²), which is 66% of the area of New York.
• Measured in Belgiums: Victoria is about 7.43, New York about 4.46.

How they differ

• Victoria is larger, but New York has the larger population: 20.2 million against 7.0 million, 2.88× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 148 in New York against 31 in Victoria: New York is 4.80× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 16,600 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Victoria at 37°S is drawn about 1.6× too large and New York at 43°N about 1.9×, so the map shows Victoria as 1.39× the size of New York instead of 1.66×.
• Together Victoria and New York cover 365,000 km², close to the size of Germany (358,000 km², 2.0% smaller).
• The gap between them, 91,000 km², is about the size of Portugal (91,400 km²).
• At New York's density, Victoria would have 33.6 million people (it has 7.0 million). At Victoria's density, New York would have 4.2 million (it has 20.2 million).
• New York's centre is 79.9° of latitude, about 8,880 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.
• New York is the 28th largest of the 51 states and districts of the United States and covers 1.4% of its area; it is the 8th most densely populated of them.
• New York lies about 80° of latitude (roughly 8,880 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 New York about 6,780 m².
• Laid side by side, Victoria and New York would cover 365,000 km², about the same size as Germany.
• Together they have 27.2 million people, about as many people as Australia.

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 137,000 km² is 3.1% below Wikidata's official figure of 141,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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