North Macedonia

Facts

What the numbers say about North Macedonia

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 669× the size of North Macedonia.
• At 72 people per km², North Macedonia is the 93rd 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 North Macedonia looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, North Macedonia's main territory stretches about 169 km north to south and 213 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 25,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 25,400 km², to within 2%.

How North Macedonia measures up

North Macedonia holds 0.1% of the land area and 0.2% of the people of the 50 countries listed for Europe. In Southern Europe it is the 9th largest of 17.

Where North Macedonia sits

• North Macedonia's centre lies at 41.6°N, 21.7°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 4,630 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 41°N to 42°N, about 170 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If North Macedonia had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², North Macedonia would have 31.8 million people. It has 1.8 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², North Macedonia would have 94,000 people. It has 1.8 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 1.8 million.

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