Pernambuco is 1.39× the size of Bavaria

What fits

• Bavaria is 72% of the size of Pernambuco.
• Pernambuco is larger by 27,600 km² (10,700 mi²), which is 39% of the area of Bavaria.
• Measured in Belgiums: Pernambuco is about 3.18, Bavaria about 2.28.

How they differ

• Pernambuco is larger, but Bavaria has the larger population: 13.0 million against 9.1 million, 1.44× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 186 in Bavaria against 93 in Pernambuco: Bavaria is 2.01× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 7,980 km apart.
• On a standard web map Bavaria looks larger than Pernambuco: Pernambuco at 8°S is drawn about 1.0× too large and Bavaria at 49°N about 2.3×, so the map shows Bavaria as 1.63× the size of Pernambuco, when Pernambuco is 1.39× the size of Bavaria.
• Together Pernambuco and Bavaria cover 168,000 km², close to the size of Somaliland (167,000 km², 0.1% smaller).
• The gap between them, 27,600 km², is about the size of Solomon Islands (27,200 km²).
• At Bavaria's density, Pernambuco would have 18.2 million people (it has 9.1 million). At Pernambuco's density, Bavaria would have 6.5 million (it has 13.0 million).
• Bavaria's centre is 57.3° of latitude, about 6,370 km, farther north than Pernambuco's.
• Pernambuco is the 19th largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 1.2% of its area; it is the 6th most densely populated of them.
• Bavaria is the largest of the 16 states of Germany and covers 20% of its area; it is the 11th most densely populated of them.
• Bavaria lies about 57° of latitude (roughly 6,370 km) north of Pernambuco, on the other side of the equator.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Pernambuco would have about 10,780 m² and each person in Bavaria about 5,370 m².
• Laid side by side, Pernambuco and Bavaria would cover 168,000 km², 95% of the size of Uruguay.
• Together they have 22.1 million people, about as many people as Mali.

Side by side

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

• Wikidata's official figure of 98,900 km² agrees with our measured area of 97,600 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 70,600 km² agrees with our measured area of 70,000 km², to within 2%.

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