Myanmar

Facts

What the numbers say about Myanmar

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 25.6× the size of Myanmar.
• At 80 people per km², Myanmar is the 84th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Myanmar lies at 21°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.1×.
• Laid out flat, Myanmar's main territory stretches about 2,060 km north to south and 931 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 677,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 663,000 km², to within 2%.

How Myanmar measures up

Myanmar holds 2.1% of the land area and 1.2% of the people of the 51 countries listed for Asia. In South-Eastern Asia it is the 2nd largest of 11.

Where Myanmar sits

• Myanmar's centre lies at 21.1°N, 96.5°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 2,350 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 10°N to 29°N, about 2,080 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Myanmar had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Myanmar would have 830.6 million people. It has 53.4 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Myanmar would have 2.5 million people. It has 53.4 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 48.0 million.

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