Nayarit is 1.05× the size of Sicily (Italy)

Nayarit (state of Mexico) covers about 27,200 km² (10,500 mi²) and Sicily (Italy) (region of Italy) about 25,900 km² (9,990 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

27,200km²Nayarit
25,900km²Sicily (Italy)

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Nayarit
Sicily (Italy)

What fits

Sicily (Italy) is 95% of the size of Nayarit.
Nayarit is larger by 1,300 km² (501 mi²), which is 5.0% of the area of Sicily (Italy).
Measured in Belgiums: Nayarit is about 0.89, Sicily (Italy) about 0.84.

How they differ

Nayarit is larger, but Sicily (Italy) has the larger population: 5.0 million against 1.2 million, 4.07× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 193 in Sicily (Italy) against 45 in Nayarit: Sicily (Italy) is 4.28× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 10,800 km apart.
On a standard web map Sicily (Italy) looks larger than Nayarit: Nayarit at 22°N is drawn about 1.2× too large and Sicily (Italy) at 38°N about 1.6×, so the map shows Sicily (Italy) as 1.31× the size of Nayarit, when Nayarit is 1.05× the size of Sicily (Italy).
Together Nayarit and Sicily (Italy) cover 53,000 km², close to the size of Bosnia and Herzegovina (51,800 km², 2.3% smaller).
The gap between them, 1,300 km², is about the size of São Tomé and Príncipe (1,040 km²).
At Sicily (Italy)'s density, Nayarit would have 5.2 million people (it has 1.2 million). At Nayarit's density, Sicily (Italy) would have 1.2 million (it has 5.0 million).
Sicily (Italy)'s centre is 15.7° of latitude, about 1,750 km, farther north than Nayarit's.
Nayarit is the 23rd largest of the 32 states of Mexico and covers 1.4% of its area; it is the 21st most densely populated of them.
Sicily (Italy) is the largest of the 20 regions of Italy and covers 8.6% of its area; it is the 8th most densely populated of them.
Sicily (Italy) lies about 16° of latitude (roughly 1,750 km) north of Nayarit.
Shared out evenly, each person in Nayarit would have about 22,200 m² and each person in Sicily (Italy) about 5,190 m².
Laid side by side, Nayarit and Sicily (Italy) would cover 53,000 km², about the same size as Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Together they have 6.2 million people, about as many people as the Republic of the Congo.

Side by side

	Nayarit	Sicily (Italy)
Is a	StateMexico	RegionItaly
Area, measured	27,200 km²10,500 mi²	25,900 km²9,990 mi²
Official area	27,900 km²Wikidata	25,700 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	23rd of 32in Mexico	1st of 20in Italy
Population	1.2 millionWikidata, 2015	5.0 millionWikidata, 2019
Rank by population	29th of 32in Mexico	4th of 20in Italy
Density	45 per km²	193 per km²
Capital	Tepic	Palermo
Latitude range	21°N to 23°N	35°N to 39°N

Population: Wikidata 2015 and Wikidata 2019. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Our measured 27,200 km² is 2.5% below Wikidata's official figure of 27,900 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.
Wikidata's official figure of 25,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 25,900 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain. The outline of Sicily (Italy) is the provinces Natural Earth draws there, joined along their shared borders.
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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