Alagoas is 1.07× the size of Sicily (Italy)

Alagoas (state of Brazil) covers about 27,600 km² (10,700 mi²) and Sicily (Italy) (region of Italy) about 25,900 km² (9,990 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

27,600km²Alagoas
25,900km²Sicily (Italy)

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Alagoas
Sicily (Italy)

What fits

Sicily (Italy) is 94% of the size of Alagoas.
Alagoas is larger by 1,750 km² (676 mi²), which is 6.8% of the area of Sicily (Italy).
Measured in Belgiums: Alagoas is about 0.90, Sicily (Italy) about 0.84.

How they differ

Alagoas is larger, but Sicily (Italy) has the larger population: 5.0 million against 3.1 million, 1.59× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 193 in Sicily (Italy) against 113 in Alagoas: Sicily (Italy) is 1.70× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 7,430 km apart.
On a standard web map Sicily (Italy) looks larger than Alagoas: Alagoas at 10°S is drawn about 1.0× too large and Sicily (Italy) at 38°N about 1.6×, so the map shows Sicily (Italy) as 1.45× the size of Alagoas, when Alagoas is 1.07× the size of Sicily (Italy).
Together Alagoas and Sicily (Italy) cover 53,500 km², close to the size of Croatia (55,000 km², 2.9% bigger).
The gap between them, 1,750 km², is about the size of Comoros (1,670 km²).
At Sicily (Italy)'s density, Alagoas would have 5.3 million people (it has 3.1 million). At Alagoas's density, Sicily (Italy) would have 2.9 million (it has 5.0 million).
Sicily (Italy)'s centre is 47.1° of latitude, about 5,240 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.
Sicily (Italy) is the largest of the 20 regions of Italy and covers 8.6% of its area; it is the 8th most densely populated of them.
Sicily (Italy) lies about 47° of latitude (roughly 5,240 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 Sicily (Italy) about 5,190 m².
Laid side by side, Alagoas and Sicily (Italy) would cover 53,500 km², about the same size as Croatia.
Together they have 8.1 million people, about as many people as Honduras.

Side by side

	Alagoas	Sicily (Italy)
Is a	StateBrazil	RegionItaly
Area, measured	27,600 km²10,700 mi²	25,900 km²9,990 mi²
Official area	27,800 km²Wikidata	25,700 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	25th of 27in Brazil	1st of 20in Italy
Population	3.1 millionWikidata, 2022	5.0 millionWikidata, 2019
Rank by population	19th of 27in Brazil	4th of 20in Italy
Density	113 per km²	193 per km²
Capital	Maceió	Palermo
Latitude range	11°S to 9°S	35°N to 39°N

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2019. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 27,800 km² agrees with our measured area of 27,600 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 25,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 25,900 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain. The outline of Sicily (Italy) is the provinces Natural Earth draws there, joined along their shared borders.
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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