Western Australia is 14.3× the size of Uruguay

What fits

• Uruguay fits inside Western Australia about 14.3 times by area.
• Western Australia is larger by 2,351,000 km² (908,000 mi²), which is 1,326% of the area of Uruguay.
• Measured in Belgiums: Western Australia is about 82.4, Uruguay about 5.78.

How they differ

• Western Australia is larger, but Uruguay has the larger population: 3.4 million against 3.0 million, 1.14× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 19 in Uruguay against 1.2 in Western Australia: Uruguay is 16.3× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 13,500 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Western Australia at 25°S is drawn about 1.2× too large and Uruguay at 33°S about 1.4×, so the map shows Western Australia as 12.3× the size of Uruguay instead of 14.3×.
• Together Western Australia and Uruguay cover 2,705,000 km², close to the size of Kazakhstan (2,714,000 km², 0.3% bigger).
• The gap between them, 2,351,000 km², is about the size of Democratic Republic of the Congo (2,325,000 km²).
• At Uruguay's density, Western Australia would have 49.1 million people (it has 3.0 million). At Western Australia's density, Uruguay would have 211,000 (it has 3.4 million).
• Western Australia's centre is 7.5° of latitude, about 830 km, farther north than Uruguay's.
• Western Australia is the largest of the 8 states and territories of Australia and covers 33% of its area; it is the 7th most densely populated of them.
• Uruguay ranks 91st of 246 countries and territories by area.
• Western Australia lies about 7° of latitude (roughly 830 km) north of Uruguay.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Western Australia would have about 840,280 m² and each person in Uruguay about 51,490 m².
• Laid side by side, Western Australia and Uruguay would cover 2,705,000 km², about the same size as Kazakhstan.
• Together they have 6.5 million people, about as many people as Bulgaria.
• Counted as a country, Western Australia would rank 10th by area and 137th by population.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2024 and Wikidata 2023. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 2,527,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 2,528,000 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 176,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 177,000 km², to within 2%.

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