Serbia

Facts

What the numbers say about Serbia

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 219× the size of Serbia.
• At 85 people per km², Serbia is the 79th 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 44°N is drawn about 1.9× too large in area, so Serbia looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Serbia's main territory stretches about 438 km north to south and 329 km east to west.
• Our measured 77,600 km² is 12% below Wikidata's official figure of 88,500 km². The official figure includes Kosovo, which Natural Earth draws as a separate place; together they measure 88,500 km².

How Serbia measures up

Serbia holds 0.3% of the land area and 0.9% of the people of the 50 countries listed for Europe. In Southern Europe it is the 5th largest of 17.

Where Serbia sits

• Serbia's centre lies at 44.2°N, 20.8°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 4,920 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 42°N to 46°N, about 440 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Serbia had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Serbia would have 97.2 million people. It has 6.6 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Serbia would have 289,000 people. It has 6.6 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 5.6 million.

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