Lower Saxony is 1.08× the size of Quintana Roo

Lower Saxony (state of Germany) covers about 47,600 km² (18,400 mi²) and Quintana Roo (state of Mexico) about 43,900 km² (16,900 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

47,600km²Lower Saxony
43,900km²Quintana Roo

100 km

Lower Saxony
Quintana Roo

What fits

Quintana Roo is 92% of the size of Lower Saxony.
Lower Saxony is larger by 3,720 km² (1,440 mi²), which is 8.5% of the area of Quintana Roo.
Measured in Belgiums: Lower Saxony is about 1.55, Quintana Roo about 1.43.

How they differ

Lower Saxony also has the larger population: 7.9 million against 1.9 million, 4.28× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 167 in Lower Saxony against 42 in Quintana Roo: Lower Saxony is 3.94× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 8,750 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Lower Saxony at 53°N is drawn about 2.7× too large and Quintana Roo at 20°N about 1.1×, so the map shows Lower Saxony as 2.63× the size of Quintana Roo instead of 1.08×.
Together Lower Saxony and Quintana Roo cover 91,500 km², close to the size of Portugal (91,400 km², 0.1% smaller).
The gap between them, 3,720 km², is about the size of Cape Verde (3,930 km²).
At Quintana Roo's density, Lower Saxony would have 2.0 million people (it has 7.9 million). At Lower Saxony's density, Quintana Roo would have 7.3 million (it has 1.9 million).
Lower Saxony's centre is 33.1° of latitude, about 3,680 km, farther north than Quintana Roo's.
Lower Saxony is the 2nd largest of the 16 states of Germany and covers 13% of its area; it is the 12th most densely populated of them.
Quintana Roo is the 19th largest of the 32 states of Mexico and covers 2.2% of its area; it is the 24th most densely populated of them.
Lower Saxony lies about 33° of latitude (roughly 3,680 km) north of Quintana Roo.
Shared out evenly, each person in Lower Saxony would have about 5,990 m² and each person in Quintana Roo about 23,610 m².
Laid side by side, Lower Saxony and Quintana Roo would cover 91,500 km², about the same size as Portugal.
Together they have 9.8 million people, about as many people as the United Arab Emirates.

Side by side

	Lower Saxony	Quintana Roo
Is a	StateGermany	StateMexico
Area, measured	47,600 km²18,400 mi²	43,900 km²16,900 mi²
Official area	47,600 km²Wikidata	44,700 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	2nd of 16in Germany	19th of 32in Mexico
Population	7.9 millionWikidata, 2022	1.9 millionWikidata, 2020
Rank by population	4th of 16in Germany	24th of 32in Mexico
Density	167 per km²	42 per km²
Capital	Hanover	Chetumal
Latitude range	51°N to 54°N	18°N to 22°N

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2020. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 47,600 km² agrees with our measured area of 47,600 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 44,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 43,900 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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