Czechia

Facts

What the numbers say about Czechia

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 216× the size of Czechia.
• Czechia ranks 85th of 237 by population but only 116th of 239 by area: it holds more people than its size suggests.
• At 139 people per km², Czechia is the 48th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 50°N is drawn about 2.4× too large in area, so Czechia looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Czechia's main territory stretches about 276 km north to south and 484 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 78,900 km² agrees with our measured area of 78,800 km², to within 2%.

How Czechia measures up

Czechia holds 0.3% of the land area and 1.5% of the people of the 50 countries listed for Europe. In Eastern Europe it is the 8th largest of 10.

Where Czechia sits

• Czechia's centre lies at 49.7°N, 15.3°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 5,530 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 49°N to 51°N, about 280 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Czechia had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Czechia would have 98.6 million people. It has 10.9 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Czechia would have 293,000 people. It has 10.9 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 5.7 million.

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