Lower Saxony is 1.84× the size of Sicily (Italy)

Lower Saxony (state of Germany) covers about 47,600 km² (18,400 mi²) and Sicily (Italy) (region of Italy) about 25,900 km² (9,990 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

47,600km²Lower Saxony
25,900km²Sicily (Italy)

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Lower Saxony
Sicily (Italy)

What fits

Sicily (Italy) is 54% of the size of Lower Saxony.
Lower Saxony is larger by 21,700 km² (8,390 mi²), which is 84% of the area of Sicily (Italy).
Measured in Belgiums: Lower Saxony is about 1.55, Sicily (Italy) about 0.84.

How they differ

Lower Saxony also has the larger population: 7.9 million against 5.0 million, 1.59× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 193 in Sicily (Italy) against 167 in Lower Saxony: Sicily (Italy) is 1.15× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 1,730 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Lower Saxony at 53°N is drawn about 2.7× too large and Sicily (Italy) at 38°N about 1.6×, so the map shows Lower Saxony as 3.15× the size of Sicily (Italy) instead of 1.84×.
Together Lower Saxony and Sicily (Italy) cover 73,500 km², close to the size of Panama (74,500 km², 1.5% bigger).
The gap between them, 21,700 km², is about the size of Djibouti (21,800 km²).
At Sicily (Italy)'s density, Lower Saxony would have 9.2 million people (it has 7.9 million). At Lower Saxony's density, Sicily (Italy) would have 4.3 million (it has 5.0 million).
Lower Saxony's centre is 15.2° of latitude, about 1,690 km, farther north than Sicily (Italy)'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.
Sicily (Italy) is the largest of the 20 regions of Italy and covers 8.6% of its area; it is the 8th most densely populated of them.
Lower Saxony lies about 15° of latitude (roughly 1,690 km) north of Sicily (Italy).
Shared out evenly, each person in Lower Saxony would have about 5,990 m² and each person in Sicily (Italy) about 5,190 m².
Laid side by side, Lower Saxony and Sicily (Italy) would cover 73,500 km², about the same size as Panama.
Together they have 12.9 million people, about as many people as South Sudan.

Side by side

	Lower Saxony	Sicily (Italy)
Is a	StateGermany	RegionItaly
Area, measured	47,600 km²18,400 mi²	25,900 km²9,990 mi²
Official area	47,600 km²Wikidata	25,700 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	2nd of 16in Germany	1st of 20in Italy
Population	7.9 millionWikidata, 2022	5.0 millionWikidata, 2019
Rank by population	4th of 16in Germany	4th of 20in Italy
Density	167 per km²	193 per km²
Capital	Hanover	Palermo
Latitude range	51°N to 54°N	35°N to 39°N

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2019. 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 25,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 25,900 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 Sicily (Italy) 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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