Maranhão is 1.43× the size of Victoria

What fits

• Victoria is 70% of the size of Maranhão.
• Maranhão is larger by 98,200 km² (37,900 mi²), which is 43% of the area of Victoria.
• Measured in Belgiums: Maranhão is about 10.6, Victoria about 7.43.

How they differ

• Maranhão is larger, but Victoria has the larger population: 7.0 million against 6.8 million, 1.03× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 31 in Victoria against 21 in Maranhão: Victoria is 1.48× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 15,200 km apart.
• On a standard web map Victoria looks larger than Maranhão: Maranhão at 5°S is drawn about 1.0× too large and Victoria at 37°S about 1.6×, so the map shows Victoria as 1.08× the size of Maranhão, when Maranhão is 1.43× the size of Victoria.
• Together Maranhão and Victoria cover 554,000 km², close to the size of France (548,000 km², 1.1% smaller).
• The gap between them, 98,200 km², is about the size of South Korea (98,500 km²).
• At Victoria's density, Maranhão would have 10.0 million people (it has 6.8 million). At Maranhão's density, Victoria would have 4.7 million (it has 7.0 million).
• Maranhão's centre is 31.8° of latitude, about 3,530 km, farther north than Victoria'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.
• Victoria is the 6th largest of the 8 states and territories of Australia and covers 3.0% of its area; it is the 2nd most densely populated of them.
• Maranhão lies about 32° of latitude (roughly 3,530 km) north of Victoria.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Maranhão would have about 48,130 m² and each person in Victoria about 32,510 m².
• Laid side by side, Maranhão and Victoria would cover 554,000 km², about the same size as France.
• Together they have 13.8 million people, about as many people as Burundi.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2024. 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 227,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 228,000 km², to within 2%.

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