Nepal

Facts

What the numbers say about Nepal

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 115× the size of Nepal.
• Nepal ranks 51st of 237 by population but only 93rd of 239 by area: it holds more people than its size suggests.
• At 198 people per km², Nepal is the 36th 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 28°N is drawn about 1.3× too large in area, so Nepal looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Nepal's main territory stretches about 450 km north to south and 800 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 147,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 147,000 km², to within 2%.

How Nepal measures up

Nepal holds 0.5% of the land area and 0.6% of the people of the 51 countries listed for Asia. In Southern Asia it is the 5th largest of 8.

Where Nepal sits

• Nepal's centre lies at 28.3°N, 83.9°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 3,140 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 26°N to 30°N, about 450 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Nepal had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Nepal would have 184.2 million people. It has 29.2 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Nepal would have 547,000 people. It has 29.2 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 10.6 million.

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