Zhejiang is 1.45× the size of Bavaria

What fits

• Bavaria is 69% of the size of Zhejiang.
• Zhejiang is larger by 31,300 km² (12,100 mi²), which is 45% of the area of Bavaria.
• Measured in Belgiums: Zhejiang is about 3.30, Bavaria about 2.28.

How they differ

• Zhejiang also has the larger population: 64.6 million against 13.0 million, 4.95× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 637 in Zhejiang against 186 in Bavaria: Zhejiang is 3.42× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 8,830 km apart.
• On a standard web map Bavaria looks larger than Zhejiang: Zhejiang at 29°N is drawn about 1.3× too large and Bavaria at 49°N about 2.3×, so the map shows Bavaria as 1.22× the size of Zhejiang, when Zhejiang is 1.45× the size of Bavaria.
• Together Zhejiang and Bavaria cover 171,000 km², close to the size of Somaliland (167,000 km², 2.3% smaller).
• The gap between them, 31,300 km², is about the size of Belgium (30,700 km²).
• At Bavaria's density, Zhejiang would have 18.9 million people (it has 64.6 million). At Zhejiang's density, Bavaria would have 44.6 million (it has 13.0 million).
• Bavaria's centre is 19.8° of latitude, about 2,200 km, farther north than Zhejiang's.
• Zhejiang is the 24th largest of the 31 provinces and regions of China and covers 1.1% of its area; it is the 7th most densely populated of them.
• Bavaria is the largest of the 16 states of Germany and covers 20% of its area; it is the 11th most densely populated of them.
• Bavaria lies about 20° of latitude (roughly 2,200 km) north of Zhejiang.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Zhejiang would have about 1,570 m² and each person in Bavaria about 5,370 m².
• Laid side by side, Zhejiang and Bavaria would cover 171,000 km², 97% of the size of Uruguay.
• Together they have 77.6 million people, 93% as many people as Germany.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2022. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 102,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 101,000 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 70,600 km² agrees with our measured area of 70,000 km², to within 2%.

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