Qatar

Facts

What the numbers say about Qatar

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 1,523× the size of Qatar.
• At 237 people per km², Qatar is the 30th 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 25°N is drawn about 1.2× too large in area, so Qatar looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Qatar's main territory stretches about 178 km north to south and 87 km east to west.
• Our measured 11,200 km² is 2.5% below Wikidata's official figure of 11,400 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

How Qatar measures up

Qatar holds 0.0% of the land area and 0.1% of the people of the 51 countries listed for Asia. In Western Asia it is the 14th largest of 19.

Where Qatar sits

• Qatar's centre lies at 25.3°N, 51.2°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 2,810 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 25°N to 26°N, about 180 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Qatar had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Qatar would have 14.0 million people. It has 2.6 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Qatar would have 41,000 people. It has 2.6 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 807,000.

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