Alberta is 1.13× the size of Minas Gerais

What fits

• Minas Gerais is 88% of the size of Alberta.
• Alberta is larger by 77,400 km² (29,900 mi²), which is 13% of the area of Minas Gerais.
• Measured in Belgiums: Alberta is about 21.6, Minas Gerais about 19.1.

How they differ

• Alberta is larger, but Minas Gerais has the larger population: 20.5 million against 4.3 million, 4.82× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 35 in Minas Gerais against 6.4 in Alberta: Minas Gerais is 5.45× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 10,500 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Alberta at 55°N is drawn about 3.0× too large and Minas Gerais at 18°S about 1.1×, so the map shows Alberta as 3.09× the size of Minas Gerais instead of 1.13×.
• Together Alberta and Minas Gerais cover 1,250,000 km², close to the size of Mali (1,253,000 km², 0.2% bigger).
• The gap between them, 77,400 km², is about the size of Serbia (77,600 km²).
• At Minas Gerais's density, Alberta would have 23.3 million people (it has 4.3 million). At Alberta's density, Minas Gerais would have 3.8 million (it has 20.5 million).
• Alberta's centre is 73.4° of latitude, about 8,160 km, farther north than Minas Gerais's.
• Alberta is the 6th largest of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and covers 6.7% of its area; it is the 5th most densely populated of them.
• Minas Gerais is the 4th largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 6.9% of its area; it is the 14th most densely populated of them.
• Alberta lies about 73° of latitude (roughly 8,160 km) north of Minas Gerais, on the other side of the equator.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Alberta would have about 155,710 m² and each person in Minas Gerais about 28,550 m².
• Laid side by side, Alberta and Minas Gerais would cover 1,250,000 km², about the same size as Mali.
• Together they have 24.8 million people, 1.04× as many people as Syria.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2021 and Wikidata 2022. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 662,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 664,000 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 587,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 586,000 km², to within 2%.

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