Federal District is 1.05× the size of Liguria

Federal District (federal district of Brazil) covers about 5,790 km² (2,240 mi²) and Liguria (region of Italy) about 5,490 km² (2,120 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

5,790km²Federal District
5,490km²Liguria

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Federal District
Liguria

What fits

Liguria is 95% of the size of Federal District.
Federal District is larger by 301 km² (116 mi²), which is 5.5% of the area of Liguria.
Measured in Belgiums: Federal District is about 0.19, Liguria about 0.18.

How they differ

Federal District also has the larger population: 2.8 million against 1.6 million, 1.82× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 486 in Federal District against 282 in Liguria: Federal District is 1.72× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 8,780 km apart.
On a standard web map Liguria looks larger than Federal District: Federal District at 16°S is drawn about 1.1× too large and Liguria at 44°N about 2.0×, so the map shows Liguria as 1.71× the size of Federal District, when Federal District is 1.05× the size of Liguria.
Together Federal District and Liguria cover 11,300 km², close to the size of Qatar (11,200 km², 1.2% smaller).
The gap between them, 301 km², is about the size of Malta (326 km²).
At Liguria's density, Federal District would have 1.6 million people (it has 2.8 million). At Federal District's density, Liguria would have 2.7 million (it has 1.6 million).
Liguria's centre is 60.0° of latitude, about 6,680 km, farther north than Federal District's.
Federal District is the 27th largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers less than 0.1% of its area; it is the most densely populated of them.
Liguria is the 18th largest of the 20 regions of Italy and covers 1.8% of its area; it is the 4th most densely populated of them.
Liguria lies about 60° of latitude (roughly 6,680 km) north of Federal District, on the other side of the equator.
Shared out evenly, each person in Federal District would have about 2,060 m² and each person in Liguria about 3,540 m².
Laid side by side, Federal District and Liguria would cover 11,300 km², about the same size as Qatar.
Together they have 4.4 million people, about as many people as Kuwait.

Side by side

	Federal District	Liguria
Is a	Federal DistrictBrazil	RegionItaly
Area, measured	5,790 km²2,240 mi²	5,490 km²2,120 mi²
Official area	5,760 km²Wikidata	5,420 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	27th of 27in Brazil	18th of 20in Italy
Population	2.8 millionWikidata, 2022	1.6 millionWikidata, 2019
Rank by population	20th of 27in Brazil	12th of 20in Italy
Density	486 per km²	282 per km²
Capital	Brasília	Genoa
Latitude range	16°S to 15°S	44°N to 45°N

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2019. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 5,760 km² agrees with our measured area of 5,790 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 5,420 km² agrees with our measured area of 5,490 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 Liguria 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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