Yamagata is 77.9× the size of Chandigarh

What fits

• Chandigarh fits inside Yamagata about 77.9 times by area.
• Yamagata is larger by 9,130 km² (3,520 mi²), which is 7,688% of the area of Chandigarh.
• Measured in Belgiums: Yamagata is about 0.30, Chandigarh about 0.00.

How they differ

• Yamagata also has the larger population: 1.1 million against 1.1 million, 1.01× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 8,892 in Chandigarh against 115 in Yamagata: Chandigarh is 77.3× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 5,750 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Yamagata at 38°N is drawn about 1.6× too large and Chandigarh at 31°N about 1.4×, so the map shows Yamagata as 93.8× the size of Chandigarh instead of 77.9×.
• Together Yamagata and Chandigarh cover 9,360 km², close to the size of Lebanon (10,000 km², 6.8% bigger).
• The gap between them, 9,130 km², is about the size of Lebanon (10,000 km²).
• At Chandigarh's density, Yamagata would have 82.2 million people (it has 1.1 million). At Yamagata's density, Chandigarh would have 14,000 (it has 1.1 million).
• Yamagata's centre is 7.7° of latitude, about 860 km, farther north than Chandigarh's.
• Yamagata is the 9th largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 2.5% of its area; it is the 42nd most densely populated of them.
• Chandigarh is the 35th largest of the 36 states and union territories of India and covers less than 0.1% of its area; it is the 2nd most densely populated of them.
• Yamagata lies about 8° of latitude (roughly 855 km) north of Chandigarh.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Yamagata would have about 8,690 m² and each person in Chandigarh about 110 m².
• Laid side by side, Yamagata and Chandigarh would cover 9,360 km², 94% of the size of Lebanon.
• Together they have 2.1 million people, about as many people as Slovenia.
• Chandigarh is drawn from 13 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

Population: Wikidata 2021 and Wikidata 2011. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 9,320 km² agrees with our measured area of 9,240 km², to within 2%.
• Our measured 119 km² is 4.1% above Wikidata's official figure of 114 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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