Newfoundland and Labrador is 1.24× the size of Maranhão

What fits

• Maranhão is 81% of the size of Newfoundland and Labrador.
• Newfoundland and Labrador is larger by 77,200 km² (29,800 mi²), which is 24% of the area of Maranhão.
• Measured in Belgiums: Newfoundland and Labrador is about 13.2, Maranhão about 10.6.

How they differ

• Newfoundland and Labrador is larger, but Maranhão has the larger population: 6.8 million against 511,000, 13.3× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 21 in Maranhão against 1.3 in Newfoundland and Labrador: Maranhão is 16.4× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 6,580 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Newfoundland and Labrador at 53°N is drawn about 2.7× too large and Maranhão at 5°S about 1.0×, so the map shows Newfoundland and Labrador as 3.35× the size of Maranhão instead of 1.24×.
• Together Newfoundland and Labrador and Maranhão cover 729,000 km², close to the size of Chile (736,000 km², 1.0% bigger).
• The gap between them, 77,200 km², is about the size of Serbia (77,600 km²).
• At Maranhão's density, Newfoundland and Labrador would have 8.4 million people (it has 511,000). At Newfoundland and Labrador's density, Maranhão would have 413,000 (it has 6.8 million).
• Newfoundland and Labrador's centre is 57.8° of latitude, about 6,430 km, farther north than Maranhão'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.
• Maranhão is the 8th largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 3.8% of its area; it is the 16th most densely populated of them.
• Newfoundland and Labrador lies about 58° of latitude (roughly 6,430 km) north of Maranhão, 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 Maranhão about 48,130 m².
• Laid side by side, Newfoundland and Labrador and Maranhão would cover 729,000 km², about the same size as Chile.
• Together they have 7.3 million people, about as many people as Kyrgyzstan.

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 332,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 326,000 km², to within 2%.

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