Alagoas is 1.08× the size of Maryland

Alagoas (state of Brazil) covers about 27,600 km² (10,700 mi²) and Maryland (state of the United States) about 25,500 km² (9,830 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

27,600km²Alagoas
25,500km²Maryland

100 km

Alagoas
Maryland

What fits

Maryland is 92% of the size of Alagoas.
Alagoas is larger by 2,160 km² (833 mi²), which is 8.5% of the area of Maryland.
Measured in Belgiums: Alagoas is about 0.90, Maryland about 0.83.

How they differ

Alagoas is larger, but Maryland has the larger population: 6.2 million against 3.1 million, 1.98× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 243 in Maryland against 113 in Alagoas: Maryland is 2.14× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 6,810 km apart.
On a standard web map Maryland looks larger than Alagoas: Alagoas at 10°S is drawn about 1.0× too large and Maryland at 39°N about 1.7×, so the map shows Maryland as 1.49× the size of Alagoas, when Alagoas is 1.08× the size of Maryland.
Together Alagoas and Maryland cover 53,100 km², close to the size of Bosnia and Herzegovina (51,800 km², 2.4% smaller).
The gap between them, 2,160 km², is about the size of Mauritius (2,000 km²).
At Maryland's density, Alagoas would have 6.7 million people (it has 3.1 million). At Alagoas's density, Maryland would have 2.9 million (it has 6.2 million).
Maryland's centre is 48.6° of latitude, about 5,400 km, farther north than Alagoas's.
Alagoas is the 25th largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 0.3% of its area; it is the 4th most densely populated of them.
Maryland is the 42nd largest of the 51 states and districts of the United States and covers 0.3% of its area; it is the 6th most densely populated of them.
Maryland lies about 49° of latitude (roughly 5,400 km) north of Alagoas, on the other side of the equator.
Shared out evenly, each person in Alagoas would have about 8,830 m² and each person in Maryland about 4,120 m².
Laid side by side, Alagoas and Maryland would cover 53,100 km², about the same size as Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Together they have 9.3 million people, about as many people as Tajikistan.

Side by side

	Alagoas	Maryland
Is a	StateBrazil	StateUnited States
Area, measured	27,600 km²10,700 mi²	25,500 km²9,830 mi²
Official area	27,800 km²Wikidata	32,100 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	25th of 27in Brazil	42nd of 51in the United States
Population	3.1 millionWikidata, 2022	6.2 millionWikidata, 2020
Rank by population	19th of 27in Brazil	18th of 51in the United States
Density	113 per km²	243 per km²
Capital	Maceió	Annapolis
Latitude range	11°S to 9°S	38°N to 40°N

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2020. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 27,800 km² agrees with our measured area of 27,600 km², to within 2%.
Our measured 25,500 km² is 21% below Wikidata's official figure of 32,100 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. A region is drawn whole, every island included; a country is its main territory.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded.
Drawing: Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and the two can be laid over each other.
Data built: 2026-11-12

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