Ceará is 1.91× the size of Hokkaido (Japan)

Ceará (state of Brazil) covers about 150,000 km² (58,000 mi²) and Hokkaido (Japan) (prefecture of Japan) about 78,800 km² (30,400 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

150,000km²Ceará
78,800km²Hokkaido (Japan)

100 km

Ceará
Hokkaido (Japan)

Hokkaido (Japan): Part of this region's boundary is disputed with Russia. Size Versus draws Natural Earth's de facto outline, the boundary as it is held on the ground, and takes no position on it.

What fits

Hokkaido (Japan) is 52% of the size of Ceará.
Ceará is larger by 71,400 km² (27,600 mi²), which is 91% of the area of Hokkaido (Japan).
Measured in Belgiums: Ceará is about 4.90, Hokkaido (Japan) about 2.57.

How they differ

Ceará also has the larger population: 8.8 million against 5.4 million, 1.62× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 69 in Hokkaido (Japan) against 59 in Ceará: Hokkaido (Japan) is 1.18× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 15,800 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Ceará at 5°S is drawn about 1.0× too large and Hokkaido (Japan) at 43°N about 1.9×, so the map shows Ceará as 1.02× the size of Hokkaido (Japan) instead of 1.91×.
Together Ceará and Hokkaido (Japan) cover 229,000 km², close to the size of Laos (228,000 km², 0.4% smaller).
The gap between them, 71,400 km², is about the size of Sierra Leone (71,600 km²).
At Hokkaido (Japan)'s density, Ceará would have 10.4 million people (it has 8.8 million). At Ceará's density, Hokkaido (Japan) would have 4.6 million (it has 5.4 million).
Hokkaido (Japan)'s centre is 48.5° of latitude, about 5,390 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.
Hokkaido (Japan) is the largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 21% of its area; it is the 47th most densely populated of them.
Hokkaido (Japan) lies about 48° of latitude (roughly 5,390 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 Hokkaido (Japan) about 14,500 m².
Laid side by side, Ceará and Hokkaido (Japan) would cover 229,000 km², about the same size as Laos.
Together they have 14.2 million people, about as many people as Benin.

Side by side

	Ceará	Hokkaido (Japan)
Is a	StateBrazil	PrefectureJapan
Area, measured	150,000 km²58,000 mi²	78,800 km²30,400 mi²
Official area	146,000 km²Wikidata	83,400 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	17th of 27in Brazil	1st of 47in Japan
Population	8.8 millionWikidata, 2022	5.4 millionWikidata, 2014
Rank by population	8th of 27in Brazil	8th of 47in Japan
Density	59 per km²	69 per km²
Capital	Fortaleza	Sapporo
Latitude range	8°S to 3°S	41°N to 46°N

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2014. 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.
Our measured 78,800 km² is 5.6% below Wikidata's official figure of 83,400 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, 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

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