Mato Grosso do Sul is 1.56× the size of Victoria

What fits

• Victoria is 64% of the size of Mato Grosso do Sul.
• Mato Grosso do Sul is larger by 128,000 km² (49,500 mi²), which is 56% of the area of Victoria.
• Measured in Belgiums: Mato Grosso do Sul is about 11.6, Victoria about 7.43.

How they differ

• Mato Grosso do Sul is larger, but Victoria has the larger population: 7.0 million against 2.8 million, 2.54× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 31 in Victoria against 7.7 in Mato Grosso do Sul: Victoria is 3.97× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 13,300 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Mato Grosso do Sul at 20°S is drawn about 1.1× too large and Victoria at 37°S about 1.6×, so the map shows Mato Grosso do Sul as 1.14× the size of Victoria instead of 1.56×.
• Together Mato Grosso do Sul and Victoria cover 584,000 km², close to the size of Kenya (586,000 km², 0.3% bigger).
• The gap between them, 128,000 km², is about the size of Nicaragua (129,000 km²).
• At Victoria's density, Mato Grosso do Sul would have 11.0 million people (it has 2.8 million). At Mato Grosso do Sul's density, Victoria would have 1.8 million (it has 7.0 million).
• Mato Grosso do Sul's centre is 16.5° of latitude, about 1,840 km, farther north than Victoria's.
• Mato Grosso do Sul is the 6th largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 4.2% of its area; it is the 19th 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.
• Mato Grosso do Sul lies about 17° of latitude (roughly 1,840 km) north of Victoria.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Mato Grosso do Sul would have about 129,140 m² and each person in Victoria about 32,510 m².
• Laid side by side, Mato Grosso do Sul and Victoria would cover 584,000 km², about the same size as Kenya.
• Together they have 9.8 million people, about as many people as the United Arab Emirates.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2024. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 357,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 356,000 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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