Ceará is 1.45× the size of Virginia

What fits

• Virginia is 69% of the size of Ceará.
• Ceará is larger by 46,500 km² (18,000 mi²), which is 45% of the area of Virginia.
• Measured in Belgiums: Ceará is about 4.90, Virginia about 3.38.

How they differ

• Ceará also has the larger population: 8.8 million against 8.6 million, 1.02× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 83 in Virginia against 59 in Ceará: Virginia is 1.42× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 6,240 km apart.
• On a standard web map Virginia looks larger than Ceará: Ceará at 5°S is drawn about 1.0× too large and Virginia at 38°N about 1.6×, so the map shows Virginia as 1.09× the size of Ceará, when Ceará is 1.45× the size of Virginia.
• Together Ceará and Virginia cover 254,000 km², close to the size of Ecuador (255,000 km², 0.4% bigger).
• The gap between them, 46,500 km², is about the size of Estonia (45,800 km²).
• At Virginia's density, Ceará would have 12.5 million people (it has 8.8 million). At Ceará's density, Virginia would have 6.1 million (it has 8.6 million).
• Virginia's centre is 42.6° of latitude, about 4,740 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.
• Virginia is the 37th largest of the 51 states and districts of the United States and covers 1.1% of its area; it is the 15th most densely populated of them.
• Virginia lies about 43° of latitude (roughly 4,740 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 Virginia about 12,020 m².
• Laid side by side, Ceará and Virginia would cover 254,000 km², about the same size as Ecuador.
• Together they have 17.4 million people, about as many people as Cambodia.

Side by side

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.
• Our measured 104,000 km² is 6.4% below Wikidata's official figure of 111,000 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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