Minas Gerais is 1.21× the size of Sichuan

What fits

• Sichuan is 83% of the size of Minas Gerais.
• Minas Gerais is larger by 102,000 km² (39,200 mi²), which is 21% of the area of Sichuan.
• Measured in Belgiums: Minas Gerais is about 19.1, Sichuan about 15.8.

How they differ

• Minas Gerais is larger, but Sichuan has the larger population: 83.7 million against 20.5 million, 4.07× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 173 in Sichuan against 35 in Minas Gerais: Sichuan is 4.93× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 16,500 km apart.
• On a standard web map Sichuan looks larger than Minas Gerais: Minas Gerais at 18°S is drawn about 1.1× too large and Sichuan at 31°N about 1.3×, so the map shows Sichuan as 1.00× the size of Minas Gerais, when Minas Gerais is 1.21× the size of Sichuan.
• Together Minas Gerais and Sichuan cover 1,071,000 km², close to the size of Bolivia (1,087,000 km², 1.5% bigger).
• The gap between them, 102,000 km², is about the size of Iceland (102,000 km²).
• At Sichuan's density, Minas Gerais would have 101.2 million people (it has 20.5 million). At Minas Gerais's density, Sichuan would have 17.0 million (it has 83.7 million).
• Sichuan's centre is 49.0° of latitude, about 5,450 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.
• Sichuan is the 5th largest of the 31 provinces and regions of China and covers 5.2% of its area; it is the 22nd most densely populated of them.
• Sichuan lies about 49° of latitude (roughly 5,450 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 Sichuan about 5,790 m².
• Laid side by side, Minas Gerais and Sichuan would cover 1,071,000 km², about the same size as Bolivia.
• Together they have 104.2 million people, about as many people as the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 485,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 485,000 km², to within 2%.

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