Extremadura is 5.36× the size of Miyazaki

Extremadura (autonomous community of Spain) covers about 42,100 km² (16,300 mi²) and Miyazaki (prefecture of Japan) about 7,860 km² (3,030 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

42,100km²Extremadura
7,860km²Miyazaki

50 km

Extremadura
Miyazaki

What fits

Miyazaki fits inside Extremadura about 5.36 times by area.
Extremadura is larger by 34,200 km² (13,200 mi²), which is 436% of the area of Miyazaki.
Measured in Belgiums: Extremadura is about 1.37, Miyazaki about 0.26.

How they differ

Extremadura is larger, but Miyazaki has the larger population: 1.1 million against 1.1 million, 1.01× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 135 in Miyazaki against 25 in Extremadura: Miyazaki is 5.40× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 10,900 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Extremadura at 39°N is drawn about 1.7× too large and Miyazaki at 32°N about 1.4×, so the map shows Extremadura as 6.39× the size of Miyazaki instead of 5.36×.
Together Extremadura and Miyazaki cover 50,000 km², close to the size of Costa Rica (51,200 km², 2.4% bigger).
The gap between them, 34,200 km², is about the size of Moldova (33,200 km²).
At Miyazaki's density, Extremadura would have 5.7 million people (it has 1.1 million). At Extremadura's density, Miyazaki would have 196,000 (it has 1.1 million).
Extremadura's centre is 7.0° of latitude, about 780 km, farther north than Miyazaki's.
Extremadura is the 5th largest of the 19 autonomous communities and cities of Spain and covers 8.3% of its area; it is the 19th most densely populated of them.
Miyazaki is the 13th largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 2.1% of its area; it is the 39th most densely populated of them.
Extremadura lies about 7° of latitude (roughly 779 km) north of Miyazaki.
Shared out evenly, each person in Extremadura would have about 39,990 m² and each person in Miyazaki about 7,400 m².
Laid side by side, Extremadura and Miyazaki would cover 50,000 km², about the same size as Costa Rica.
Together they have 2.1 million people, about as many people as Slovenia.

Side by side

	Extremadura	Miyazaki
Is a	Autonomous communitySpain	PrefectureJapan
Area, measured	42,100 km²16,300 mi²	7,860 km²3,030 mi²
Official area	41,600 km²Wikidata	7,740 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	5th of 19in Spain	13th of 47in Japan
Population	1.1 millionWikidata, 2024	1.1 millionWikidata, 2021
Rank by population	13th of 19in Spain	36th of 47in Japan
Density	25 per km²	135 per km²
Capital	Mérida	Miyazaki
Latitude range	38°N to 40°N	31°N to 33°N

Population: Wikidata 2024 and Wikidata 2021. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 41,600 km² agrees with our measured area of 42,100 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 7,740 km² agrees with our measured area of 7,860 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 Extremadura 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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