Belgium is 1.42× the size of Sergipe

What fits

• Sergipe is 70% of the size of Belgium.
• Belgium is larger by 9,060 km² (3,500 mi²), which is 42% of the area of Sergipe.
• Measured in Switzerlands: Belgium is about 0.74, Sergipe about 0.52.

How they differ

• Belgium also has the larger population: 11.8 million against 2.2 million, 5.35× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 386 in Belgium against 102 in Sergipe: Belgium is 3.77× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 7,930 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Belgium at 51°N is drawn about 2.5× too large and Sergipe at 11°S about 1.0×, so the map shows Belgium as 3.41× the size of Sergipe instead of 1.42×.
• Together Belgium and Sergipe cover 52,300 km², close to the size of Bosnia and Herzegovina (51,800 km², 0.9% smaller).
• The gap between them, 9,060 km², is about the size of Lebanon (10,000 km²).
• At Sergipe's density, Belgium would have 3.1 million people (it has 11.8 million). At Belgium's density, Sergipe would have 8.3 million (it has 2.2 million).
• Belgium's centre is 61.2° of latitude, about 6,810 km, farther north than Sergipe's.
• Belgium ranks 141st of 246 countries and territories by area.
• Sergipe is the 26th largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 0.3% of its area; it is the 5th most densely populated of them.
• Belgium lies about 61° of latitude (roughly 6,810 km) north of Sergipe, on the other side of the equator.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Belgium would have about 2,590 m² and each person in Sergipe about 9,780 m².
• Laid side by side, Belgium and Sergipe would cover 52,300 km², about the same size as Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• Together they have 14.0 million people, about as many people as Benin.
• Counted as a country, Sergipe would rank 153rd by area and 146th by population.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2025 and Wikidata 2022. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 30,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 30,700 km², to within 2%.
• Our measured 21,600 km² is 2.0% below Wikidata's official figure of 22,100 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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