Ceará is 1.03× the size of Liaoning

Ceará (state of Brazil) covers about 150,000 km² (58,000 mi²) and Liaoning (province of China) about 147,000 km² (56,600 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

150,000km²Ceará
147,000km²Liaoning

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Ceará
Liaoning

What fits

Liaoning is 98% of the size of Ceará.
Ceará is larger by 3,710 km² (1,430 mi²), which is 2.5% of the area of Liaoning.
Measured in Belgiums: Ceará is about 4.90, Liaoning about 4.78.

How they differ

Ceará is larger, but Liaoning has the larger population: 42.6 million against 8.8 million, 4.84× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 291 in Liaoning against 59 in Ceará: Liaoning is 4.97× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 15,600 km apart.
On a standard web map Liaoning looks larger than Ceará: Ceará at 5°S is drawn about 1.0× too large and Liaoning at 41°N about 1.8×, so the map shows Liaoning as 1.71× the size of Ceará, when Ceará is 1.03× the size of Liaoning.
Together Ceará and Liaoning cover 297,000 km², close to the size of Philippines (293,000 km², 1.2% smaller).
The gap between them, 3,710 km², is about the size of Cape Verde (3,930 km²).
At Liaoning's density, Ceará would have 43.7 million people (it has 8.8 million). At Ceará's density, Liaoning would have 8.6 million (it has 42.6 million).
Liaoning's centre is 46.4° of latitude, about 5,160 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.
Liaoning is the 21st largest of the 31 provinces and regions of China and covers 1.6% of its area; it is the 16th most densely populated of them.
Liaoning lies about 46° of latitude (roughly 5,160 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 Liaoning about 3,440 m².
Laid side by side, Ceará and Liaoning would cover 297,000 km², about the same size as the Philippines.
Together they have 51.4 million people, about as many people as South Korea.

Side by side

	Ceará	Liaoning
Is a	StateBrazil	ProvinceChina
Area, measured	150,000 km²58,000 mi²	147,000 km²56,600 mi²
Official area	146,000 km²Wikidata	146,000 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	17th of 27in Brazil	21st of 31in China
Population	8.8 millionWikidata, 2022	42.6 millionWikidata, 2020
Rank by population	8th of 27in Brazil	14th of 31in China
Density	59 per km²	291 per km²
Capital	Fortaleza	Shenyang
Latitude range	8°S to 3°S	39°N to 43°N

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2020. 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 146,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 147,000 km², to within 2%.

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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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