Georgia

Facts

What the numbers say about Georgia

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 244× the size of Georgia.
• At 56 people per km², Georgia is the 113th 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 42°N is drawn about 1.8× too large in area, so Georgia looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Georgia's main territory stretches about 283 km north to south and 551 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 69,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 69,600 km², to within 2%.

How Georgia measures up

Georgia holds 0.2% of the land area and 0.1% of the people of the 51 countries listed for Asia. In Western Asia it is the 10th largest of 19.

Where Georgia sits

• Georgia's centre lies at 42.2°N, 43.5°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 4,690 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 41°N to 44°N, about 280 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Georgia had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Georgia would have 87.1 million people. It has 3.9 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Georgia would have 259,000 people. It has 3.9 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 5.0 million.

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