Manitoba is 1.11× the size of Minas Gerais

What fits

• Minas Gerais is 90% of the size of Manitoba.
• Manitoba is larger by 66,200 km² (25,600 mi²), which is 11% of the area of Minas Gerais.
• Measured in Belgiums: Manitoba is about 21.3, Minas Gerais about 19.1.

How they differ

• Manitoba is larger, but Minas Gerais has the larger population: 20.5 million against 1.3 million, 15.3× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 35 in Minas Gerais against 2.1 in Manitoba: Minas Gerais is 17.0× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 9,540 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Manitoba at 55°N is drawn about 3.0× too large and Minas Gerais at 18°S about 1.1×, so the map shows Manitoba as 3.00× the size of Minas Gerais instead of 1.11×.
• Together Manitoba and Minas Gerais cover 1,239,000 km², close to the size of Angola (1,245,000 km², 0.5% bigger).
• The gap between them, 66,200 km², is about the size of Sri Lanka (66,300 km²).
• At Minas Gerais's density, Manitoba would have 22.9 million people (it has 1.3 million). At Manitoba's density, Minas Gerais would have 1.2 million (it has 20.5 million).
• Manitoba's centre is 73.2° of latitude, about 8,140 km, farther north than Minas Gerais's.
• Manitoba is the 7th largest of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and covers 6.6% of its area; it is the 8th most densely populated of them.
• Minas Gerais is the 4th largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 6.9% of its area; it is the 14th most densely populated of them.
• Manitoba lies about 73° of latitude (roughly 8,140 km) north of Minas Gerais, on the other side of the equator.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Manitoba would have about 486,240 m² and each person in Minas Gerais about 28,550 m².
• Laid side by side, Manitoba and Minas Gerais would cover 1,239,000 km², about the same size as Angola.
• Together they have 21.9 million people, about as many people as Niger.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2021 and Wikidata 2022. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 648,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 653,000 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 587,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 586,000 km², to within 2%.

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