Newfoundland and Labrador is 1.18× the size of Goiás

What fits

• Goiás is 85% of the size of Newfoundland and Labrador.
• Newfoundland and Labrador is larger by 62,100 km² (24,000 mi²), which is 18% of the area of Goiás.
• Measured in Belgiums: Newfoundland and Labrador is about 13.2, Goiás about 11.1.

How they differ

• Newfoundland and Labrador is larger, but Goiás has the larger population: 7.1 million against 511,000, 13.8× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 21 in Goiás against 1.3 in Newfoundland and Labrador: Goiás is 16.3× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 7,710 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Newfoundland and Labrador at 53°N is drawn about 2.7× too large and Goiás at 16°S about 1.1×, so the map shows Newfoundland and Labrador as 2.98× the size of Goiás instead of 1.18×.
• Together Newfoundland and Labrador and Goiás cover 745,000 km², close to the size of Zambia (752,000 km², 1.0% bigger).
• The gap between them, 62,100 km², is about the size of Latvia (64,600 km²).
• At Goiás's density, Newfoundland and Labrador would have 8.3 million people (it has 511,000). At Newfoundland and Labrador's density, Goiás would have 432,000 (it has 7.1 million).
• Newfoundland and Labrador's centre is 68.8° of latitude, about 7,650 km, farther north than Goiás's.
• Newfoundland and Labrador is the 10th largest of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and covers 4.1% of its area; it is the 10th most densely populated of them.
• Goiás is the 7th largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 4.0% of its area; it is the 17th most densely populated of them.
• Newfoundland and Labrador lies about 69° of latitude (roughly 7,650 km) north of Goiás, on the other side of the equator.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Newfoundland and Labrador would have about 789,980 m² and each person in Goiás about 48,360 m².
• Laid side by side, Newfoundland and Labrador and Goiás would cover 745,000 km², about the same size as Zambia.
• Together they have 7.6 million people, about as many people as Sierra Leone.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2021 and Wikidata 2022. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 405,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 403,000 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 340,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 341,000 km², to within 2%.

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