Minas Gerais is 4.28× the size of New York

What fits

• New York fits inside Minas Gerais about 4.28 times by area.
• Minas Gerais is larger by 449,000 km² (174,000 mi²), which is 328% of the area of New York.
• Measured in Belgiums: Minas Gerais is about 19.1, New York about 4.46.

How they differ

• Minas Gerais also has the larger population: 20.5 million against 20.2 million, 1.02× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 148 in New York against 35 in Minas Gerais: New York is 4.21× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 7,530 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Minas Gerais at 18°S is drawn about 1.1× too large and New York at 43°N about 1.9×, so the map shows Minas Gerais as 2.55× the size of New York instead of 4.28×.
• Together Minas Gerais and New York cover 723,000 km², close to the size of Chile (736,000 km², 1.8% bigger).
• The gap between them, 449,000 km², is about the size of Uzbekistan (448,000 km²).
• At New York's density, Minas Gerais would have 86.5 million people (it has 20.5 million). At Minas Gerais's density, New York would have 4.8 million (it has 20.2 million).
• New York's centre is 61.4° of latitude, about 6,830 km, farther north than Minas Gerais's.
• 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.
• New York is the 28th largest of the 51 states and districts of the United States and covers 1.4% of its area; it is the 8th most densely populated of them.
• New York lies about 61° of latitude (roughly 6,830 km) north of Minas Gerais, on the other side of the equator.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Minas Gerais would have about 28,550 m² and each person in New York about 6,780 m².
• Laid side by side, Minas Gerais and New York would cover 723,000 km², about the same size as Chile.
• Together they have 40.7 million people, about as many people as Sudan.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2020. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 587,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 586,000 km², to within 2%.
• Our measured 137,000 km² is 3.1% below Wikidata's official figure of 141,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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