Pará is 38.5× the size of Catalonia

Pará (state of Brazil) covers about 1,231,000 km² (475,000 mi²) and Catalonia (autonomous community of Spain) about 32,000 km² (12,300 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

1,231,000km²Pará
32,000km²Catalonia

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Pará
Catalonia

What fits

Catalonia fits inside Pará about 38.5 times by area.
Pará is larger by 1,199,000 km² (463,000 mi²), which is 3,749% of the area of Catalonia.
Measured in Belgiums: Pará is about 40.1, Catalonia about 1.04.

How they differ

Pará also has the larger population: 8.1 million against 8.0 million, 1.01× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 251 in Catalonia against 6.6 in Pará: Catalonia is 38.1× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 7,500 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Pará at 4°S is drawn about 1.0× too large and Catalonia at 42°N about 1.8×, so the map shows Pará as 21.5× the size of Catalonia instead of 38.5×.
Together Pará and Catalonia cover 1,263,000 km², close to the size of Chad (1,266,000 km², 0.3% bigger).
The gap between them, 1,199,000 km², is about the size of Niger (1,181,000 km²).
At Catalonia's density, Pará would have 309.3 million people (it has 8.1 million). At Pará's density, Catalonia would have 211,000 (it has 8.0 million).
Catalonia's centre is 45.8° of latitude, about 5,100 km, farther north than Pará's.
Pará is the 2nd largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 15% of its area; it is the 21st most densely populated of them.
Catalonia is the 6th largest of the 19 autonomous communities and cities of Spain and covers 6.3% of its area; it is the 6th most densely populated of them.
Catalonia lies about 46° of latitude (roughly 5,100 km) north of Pará, on the other side of the equator.
Shared out evenly, each person in Pará would have about 151,560 m² and each person in Catalonia about 3,980 m².
Laid side by side, Pará and Catalonia would cover 1,263,000 km², about the same size as Chad.
Together they have 16.2 million people, 96% as many people as Senegal.

Side by side

	Pará	Catalonia
Is a	StateBrazil	Autonomous communitySpain
Area, measured	1,231,000 km²475,000 mi²	32,000 km²12,300 mi²
Official area	1,246,000 km²Wikidata	31,900 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	2nd of 27in Brazil	6th of 19in Spain
Population	8.1 millionWikidata, 2022	8.0 millionWikidata, 2024
Rank by population	9th of 27in Brazil	2nd of 19in Spain
Density	6.6 per km²	251 per km²
Capital	Belém	Barcelona
Latitude range	10°S to 3°N	41°N to 43°N

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2024. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 1,246,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,231,000 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 31,900 km² agrees with our measured area of 32,000 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 Catalonia 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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