Kosovo

Facts

What the numbers say about Kosovo

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 1,556× the size of Kosovo.
• At 145 people per km², Kosovo is the 45th 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 43°N is drawn about 1.8× too large in area, so Kosovo looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Kosovo's main territory stretches about 158 km north to south and 143 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 10,900 km² agrees with our measured area of 10,900 km², to within 2%.

How Kosovo measures up

Kosovo holds 0.0% of the land area and 0.2% of the people of the 50 countries listed for Europe. In Southern Europe it is the 12th largest of 17.

Where Kosovo sits

• Kosovo's centre lies at 42.6°N, 20.9°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 4,730 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 42°N to 43°N, about 160 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Kosovo had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Kosovo would have 13.7 million people. It has 1.6 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Kosovo would have 41,000 people. It has 1.6 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 790,000.

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