Statoid

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A statoid is a term for a major administrative division of a state, coined by Gwillim Law in Administrative Subdivisions of Countries ISBN 0-7864-0729-8. The division of the entire land area of the world into disjoint, named areas is possible if national sovereignty is used as a basis.

The statoid with the largest population is the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, with 166,052,859 population.^{[citation needed]}

The statoid with the largest territorial area is the Sakha Republic, a federal subject of the Russian Federation, with 3,103,200 square kilometres (1,198,150 square miles).^{[citation needed]}

The most densely populated statoid is Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, with 564,700 living in 11 square kilometres (4.25 square miles) with a density of 51,336 people per square kilometre (132,960 per square mile).^{[citation needed]}

The least densely populated statoid is Avannaa, a county of Greenland, with 843 people living in 106,700 square kilometres (41,200 square miles) with a density of 0.0079 people per square kilometre (0.0205 per square mile).^{[citation needed]}