Alagoas is 1.19× the size of Meghalaya

What fits

• Meghalaya is 84% of the size of Alagoas.
• Alagoas is larger by 4,500 km² (1,740 mi²), which is 19% of the area of Meghalaya.
• Measured in Belgiums: Alagoas is about 0.90, Meghalaya about 0.75.

How they differ

• Alagoas also has the larger population: 3.1 million against 3.0 million, 1.05× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 128 in Meghalaya against 113 in Alagoas: Meghalaya is 1.13× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 14,300 km apart.
• On a standard web map Meghalaya looks larger than Alagoas: Alagoas at 10°S is drawn about 1.0× too large and Meghalaya at 26°N about 1.2×, so the map shows Meghalaya as 1.00× the size of Alagoas, when Alagoas is 1.19× the size of Meghalaya.
• Together Alagoas and Meghalaya cover 50,700 km², close to the size of Costa Rica (51,200 km², 0.8% bigger).
• The gap between them, 4,500 km², is about the size of Trinidad and Tobago (5,120 km²).
• At Meghalaya's density, Alagoas would have 3.5 million people (it has 3.1 million). At Alagoas's density, Meghalaya would have 2.6 million (it has 3.0 million).
• Meghalaya's centre is 35.1° of latitude, about 3,900 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.
• Meghalaya is the 24th largest of the 36 states and union territories of India and covers 0.7% of its area; it is the 29th most densely populated of them.
• Meghalaya lies about 35° of latitude (roughly 3,900 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 Meghalaya about 7,790 m².
• Laid side by side, Alagoas and Meghalaya would cover 50,700 km², about the same size as Costa Rica.
• Together they have 6.1 million people, about as many people as Lebanon.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2011. 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 23,100 km² is 3.1% above Wikidata's official figure of 22,400 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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