Oaxaca is 1.35× the size of Tasmania (Australia)

Oaxaca (state of Mexico) covers about 92,200 km² (35,600 mi²) and Tasmania (Australia) (state of Australia) about 68,100 km² (26,300 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

92,200km²Oaxaca
68,100km²Tasmania (Australia)

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Oaxaca
Tasmania (Australia)

What fits

Tasmania (Australia) is 74% of the size of Oaxaca.
Oaxaca is larger by 24,000 km² (9,280 mi²), which is 35% of the area of Tasmania (Australia).
Measured in Belgiums: Oaxaca is about 3.00, Tasmania (Australia) about 2.22.

How they differ

Oaxaca also has the larger population: 4.0 million against 540,000, 7.35× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 43 in Oaxaca against 7.9 in Tasmania (Australia): Oaxaca is 5.44× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 13,500 km apart.
On a standard web map Tasmania (Australia) looks larger than Oaxaca: Oaxaca at 17°N is drawn about 1.1× too large and Tasmania (Australia) at 42°S about 1.8×, so the map shows Tasmania (Australia) as 1.22× the size of Oaxaca, when Oaxaca is 1.35× the size of Tasmania (Australia).
Together Oaxaca and Tasmania (Australia) cover 160,000 km², close to the size of Tunisia (157,000 km², 2.3% smaller).
The gap between them, 24,000 km², is about the size of Rwanda (25,300 km²).
At Tasmania (Australia)'s density, Oaxaca would have 730,000 people (it has 4.0 million). At Oaxaca's density, Tasmania (Australia) would have 2.9 million (it has 540,000).
Oaxaca's centre is 58.9° of latitude, about 6,550 km, farther north than Tasmania (Australia)'s.
Oaxaca is the 5th largest of the 32 states of Mexico and covers 4.7% of its area; it is the 23rd most densely populated of them.
Tasmania (Australia) is the 7th largest of the 8 states and territories of Australia and covers 0.9% of its area; it is the 4th most densely populated of them.
Oaxaca lies about 59° of latitude (roughly 6,550 km) north of Tasmania (Australia), on the other side of the equator.
Shared out evenly, each person in Oaxaca would have about 23,230 m² and each person in Tasmania (Australia) about 126,230 m².
Laid side by side, Oaxaca and Tasmania (Australia) would cover 160,000 km², about the same size as Tunisia.
Together they have 4.5 million people, about as many people as Kuwait.

Side by side

	Oaxaca	Tasmania (Australia)
Is a	StateMexico	StateAustralia
Area, measured	92,200 km²35,600 mi²	68,100 km²26,300 mi²
Official area	93,800 km²Wikidata	68,400 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	5th of 32in Mexico	7th of 8in Australia
Population	4.0 millionWikidata, 2015	540,000Wikidata, 2020
Rank by population	10th of 32in Mexico	6th of 8in Australia
Density	43 per km²	7.9 per km²
Capital	Oaxaca de Juárez	Hobart
Latitude range	16°N to 19°N	44°S to 40°S

Population: Wikidata 2015 and Wikidata 2020. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 93,800 km² agrees with our measured area of 92,200 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 68,400 km² agrees with our measured area of 68,100 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain
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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