Maranhão is 1.05× the size of Madhya Pradesh

Maranhão (state of Brazil) covers about 326,000 km² (126,000 mi²) and Madhya Pradesh (state of India) about 310,000 km² (120,000 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

326,000km²Maranhão
310,000km²Madhya Pradesh

200 km

Maranhão
Madhya Pradesh

What fits

Madhya Pradesh is 95% of the size of Maranhão.
Maranhão is larger by 16,600 km² (6,420 mi²), which is 5.4% of the area of Madhya Pradesh.
Measured in Belgiums: Maranhão is about 10.6, Madhya Pradesh about 10.1.

How they differ

Maranhão is larger, but Madhya Pradesh has the larger population: 72.6 million against 6.8 million, 10.7× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 235 in Madhya Pradesh against 21 in Maranhão: Madhya Pradesh is 11.3× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 13,600 km apart.
On a standard web map Madhya Pradesh looks larger than Maranhão: Maranhão at 5°S is drawn about 1.0× too large and Madhya Pradesh at 24°N about 1.2×, so the map shows Madhya Pradesh as 1.12× the size of Maranhão, when Maranhão is 1.05× the size of Madhya Pradesh.
Together Maranhão and Madhya Pradesh cover 636,000 km², close to the size of Afghanistan (642,000 km², 1.0% bigger).
The gap between them, 16,600 km², is about the size of Eswatini (17,100 km²).
At Madhya Pradesh's density, Maranhão would have 76.5 million people (it has 6.8 million). At Maranhão's density, Madhya Pradesh would have 6.4 million (it has 72.6 million).
Madhya Pradesh's centre is 28.6° of latitude, about 3,180 km, farther north than Maranhão's.
Maranhão is the 8th largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 3.8% of its area; it is the 16th most densely populated of them.
Madhya Pradesh is the 2nd largest of the 36 states and union territories of India and covers 9.8% of its area; it is the 24th most densely populated of them.
Madhya Pradesh lies about 29° of latitude (roughly 3,180 km) north of Maranhão, on the other side of the equator.
Shared out evenly, each person in Maranhão would have about 48,130 m² and each person in Madhya Pradesh about 4,260 m².
Laid side by side, Maranhão and Madhya Pradesh would cover 636,000 km², about the same size as Afghanistan.
Together they have 79.4 million people, 95% as many people as Germany.

Side by side

	Maranhão	Madhya Pradesh
Is a	StateBrazil	StateIndia
Area, measured	326,000 km²126,000 mi²	310,000 km²120,000 mi²
Official area	332,000 km²Wikidata	308,000 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	8th of 27in Brazil	2nd of 36in India
Population	6.8 millionWikidata, 2022	72.6 millionWikidata, 2011
Rank by population	12th of 27in Brazil	5th of 36in India
Density	21 per km²	235 per km²
Capital	São Luís	Bhopal
Latitude range	10°S to 1°S	21°N to 27°N

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2011. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 332,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 326,000 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 308,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 310,000 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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