Querétaro is 1.24× the size of Marche

Querétaro (state of Mexico) covers about 11,700 km² (4,520 mi²) and Marche (region of Italy) about 9,450 km² (3,650 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

11,700km²Querétaro
9,450km²Marche

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Querétaro
Marche

What fits

Marche is 81% of the size of Querétaro.
Querétaro is larger by 2,250 km² (868 mi²), which is 24% of the area of Marche.
Measured in Belgiums: Querétaro is about 0.38, Marche about 0.31.

How they differ

Querétaro also has the larger population: 2.0 million against 1.5 million, 1.34× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 174 in Querétaro against 161 in Marche: Querétaro is 1.08× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 10,100 km apart.
On a standard web map Marche looks larger than Querétaro: Querétaro at 21°N is drawn about 1.1× too large and Marche at 43°N about 1.9×, so the map shows Marche as 1.33× the size of Querétaro, when Querétaro is 1.24× the size of Marche.
Together Querétaro and Marche cover 21,200 km², close to the size of El Salvador (20,500 km², 2.9% smaller).
The gap between them, 2,250 km², is about the size of Mauritius (2,000 km²).
At Marche's density, Querétaro would have 1.9 million people (it has 2.0 million). At Querétaro's density, Marche would have 1.6 million (it has 1.5 million).
Marche's centre is 22.5° of latitude, about 2,510 km, farther north than Querétaro's.
Querétaro is the 27th largest of the 32 states of Mexico and covers 0.6% of its area; it is the 8th most densely populated of them.
Marche is the 15th largest of the 20 regions of Italy and covers 3.1% of its area; it is the 12th most densely populated of them.
Marche lies about 23° of latitude (roughly 2,510 km) north of Querétaro.
Shared out evenly, each person in Querétaro would have about 5,740 m² and each person in Marche about 6,210 m².
Laid side by side, Querétaro and Marche would cover 21,200 km², about the same size as El Salvador.
Together they have 3.6 million people, about as many people as Eritrea.

Side by side

	Querétaro	Marche
Is a	StateMexico	RegionItaly
Area, measured	11,700 km²4,520 mi²	9,450 km²3,650 mi²
Official area	11,700 km²Wikidata	9,690 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	27th of 32in Mexico	15th of 20in Italy
Population	2.0 millionWikidata, 2015	1.5 millionWikidata, 2019
Rank by population	22nd of 32in Mexico	13th of 20in Italy
Density	174 per km²	161 per km²
Capital	Santiago de Querétaro	Ancona
Latitude range	20°N to 22°N	43°N to 44°N

Population: Wikidata 2015 and Wikidata 2019. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 11,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 11,700 km², to within 2%.
Our measured 9,450 km² is 2.5% below Wikidata's official figure of 9,690 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain. The outline of Marche 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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