With an area of NUMBER@1 sq mi -LRB- NUMBER@2 km ² -RRB- , LOCATION@1 covers a large part of the highly fertile and densely populated upper LOCATION@2 plain .

And covers an area of NUMBER@1 sq mi -LRB- NUMBER@2 km ² -RRB- , it is bigger than the LOCATION@3 but smaller than LOCATION@4 .
