Ceará is 1.14× the size of Greece
Ceará (state of Brazil) covers about 150,000 km² (58,000 mi²) and Greece (Europe) about 131,000 km² (50,700 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.
- 150,000km²Ceará
- 131,000km²Greece
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- Ceará
- Greece
What fits
- Greece is 87% of the size of Ceará.
- Ceará is larger by 18,900 km² (7,290 mi²), which is 14% of the area of Greece.
- Measured in Belgiums: Ceará is about 4.90, Greece about 4.28.
How they differ
- Ceará is larger, but Greece has the larger population: 10.5 million against 8.8 million, 1.19× as many people.
- Per square kilometre that is 80 in Greece against 59 in Ceará: Greece is 1.36× as densely populated.
- Their centres are about 8,070 km apart.
- On a standard web map Greece looks larger than Ceará: Ceará at 5°S is drawn about 1.0× too large and Greece at 39°N about 1.7×, so the map shows Greece as 1.44× the size of Ceará, when Ceará is 1.14× the size of Greece.
- Together Ceará and Greece cover 282,000 km², close to the size of Burkina Faso (273,000 km², 3.1% smaller).
- The gap between them, 18,900 km², is about the size of Fiji (18,900 km²).
- At Greece's density, Ceará would have 12.0 million people (it has 8.8 million). At Ceará's density, Greece would have 7.7 million (it has 10.5 million).
- Greece's centre is 44.1° of latitude, about 4,910 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.
- Greece ranks 98th of 246 countries and territories by area.
- Greece lies about 44° of latitude (roughly 4,910 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 Greece about 12,530 m².
- Laid side by side, Ceará and Greece would cover 282,000 km², 1.03× the size of Burkina Faso.
- Together they have 19.3 million people, about as many people as Chad.
- Counted as a country, Ceará would rank 93rd by area and 100th by population.
Side by side
| Ceará | Greece | |
|---|---|---|
| Is a | StateBrazil | CountryEurope |
| Area, measured | 150,000 km²58,000 mi² | 131,000 km²50,700 mi² |
| Official area | 146,000 km²Wikidata | 132,000 km²Wikidata |
| Rank by area | 17th of 27in Brazil | 97th of 239worldwide |
| Population | 8.8 millionWikidata, 2022 | 10.5 millionWikidata, 2021 |
| Rank by population | 8th of 27in Brazil | 88th of 237worldwide |
| Density | 59 per km² | 80 per km² |
| Capital | Fortaleza | Athens |
| Latitude range | 8°S to 3°S | 35°N to 42°N |
Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2021. 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 132,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 131,000 km², to within 2%.
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Sources and method
- Outlines
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain for the region; Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, public domain
- 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