Ceará is 1.58× the size of Castile and León

Ceará (state of Brazil) covers about 150,000 km² (58,000 mi²) and Castile and León (autonomous community of Spain) about 94,800 km² (36,600 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

150,000km²Ceará
94,800km²Castile and León

100 km

Ceará
Castile and León

What fits

Castile and León is 63% of the size of Ceará.
Ceará is larger by 55,400 km² (21,400 mi²), which is 58% of the area of Castile and León.
Measured in Belgiums: Ceará is about 4.90, Castile and León about 3.09.

How they differ

Ceará also has the larger population: 8.8 million against 2.4 million, 3.68× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 59 in Ceará against 25 in Castile and León: Ceará is 2.32× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 6,290 km apart.
On a standard web map Castile and León looks larger than Ceará: Ceará at 5°S is drawn about 1.0× too large and Castile and León at 42°N about 1.8×, so the map shows Castile and León as 1.12× the size of Ceará, when Ceará is 1.58× the size of Castile and León.
Together Ceará and Castile and León cover 245,000 km², close to the size of Guinea (244,000 km², 0.3% smaller).
The gap between them, 55,400 km², is about the size of Croatia (55,000 km²).
At Castile and León's density, Ceará would have 3.8 million people (it has 8.8 million). At Ceará's density, Castile and León would have 5.5 million (it has 2.4 million).
Castile and León's centre is 46.8° of latitude, about 5,210 km, farther north than Ceará's.
Ceará is the 17th largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 1.8% of its area; it is the 11th most densely populated of them.
Castile and León is the largest of the 19 autonomous communities and cities of Spain and covers 19% of its area; it is the 18th most densely populated of them.
Castile and León lies about 47° of latitude (roughly 5,210 km) north of Ceará, on the other side of the equator.
Shared out evenly, each person in Ceará would have about 17,080 m² and each person in Castile and León about 39,690 m².
Laid side by side, Ceará and Castile and León would cover 245,000 km², about the same size as Guinea.
Together they have 11.2 million people, about as many people as Somalia.

Side by side

	Ceará	Castile and León
Is a	StateBrazil	Autonomous communitySpain
Area, measured	150,000 km²58,000 mi²	94,800 km²36,600 mi²
Official area	146,000 km²Wikidata	94,200 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	17th of 27in Brazil	1st of 19in Spain
Population	8.8 millionWikidata, 2022	2.4 millionWikidata, 2024
Rank by population	8th of 27in Brazil	6th of 19in Spain
Density	59 per km²	25 per km²
Capital	Fortaleza	–
Latitude range	8°S to 3°S	40°N to 43°N

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2024. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Our measured 150,000 km² is 2.7% above Wikidata's official figure of 146,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.
Wikidata's official figure of 94,200 km² agrees with our measured area of 94,800 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 Castile and León 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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