Quintana Roo is 1.03× the size of Denmark

Quintana Roo (state of Mexico) covers about 43,900 km² (16,900 mi²) and Denmark (Europe) about 42,700 km² (16,500 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

43,900km²Quintana Roo
42,700km²Denmark

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Quintana Roo
Denmark

What fits

Denmark is 97% of the size of Quintana Roo.
Quintana Roo is larger by 1,180 km² (455 mi²), which is 2.8% of the area of Denmark.
Measured in Belgiums: Quintana Roo is about 1.43, Denmark about 1.39.

How they differ

Quintana Roo is larger, but Denmark has the larger population: 5.8 million against 1.9 million, 3.13× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 136 in Denmark against 42 in Quintana Roo: Denmark is 3.22× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 8,700 km apart.
On a standard web map Denmark looks larger than Quintana Roo: Quintana Roo at 20°N is drawn about 1.1× too large and Denmark at 56°N about 3.2×, so the map shows Denmark as 2.75× the size of Quintana Roo, when Quintana Roo is 1.03× the size of Denmark.
Together Quintana Roo and Denmark cover 86,600 km², close to the size of Azerbaijan (86,200 km², 0.4% smaller).
The gap between them, 1,180 km², is about the size of São Tomé and Príncipe (1,040 km²).
At Denmark's density, Quintana Roo would have 6.0 million people (it has 1.9 million). At Quintana Roo's density, Denmark would have 1.8 million (it has 5.8 million).
Denmark's centre is 36.3° of latitude, about 4,030 km, farther north than Quintana Roo's.
Quintana Roo is the 19th largest of the 32 states of Mexico and covers 2.2% of its area; it is the 24th most densely populated of them.
Denmark ranks 134th of 246 countries and territories by area.
Denmark lies about 36° of latitude (roughly 4,030 km) north of Quintana Roo.
Shared out evenly, each person in Quintana Roo would have about 23,610 m² and each person in Denmark about 7,330 m².
Laid side by side, Quintana Roo and Denmark would cover 86,600 km², about the same size as Azerbaijan.
Together they have 7.7 million people, about as many people as Togo.
Counted as a country, Quintana Roo would rank 133rd by area and 150th by population.

Side by side

	Quintana Roo	Denmark
Is a	StateMexico	CountryEurope
Area, measured	43,900 km²16,900 mi²	42,700 km²16,500 mi²
Official area	44,700 km²Wikidata	42,900 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	19th of 32in Mexico	133rd of 239worldwide
Population	1.9 millionWikidata, 2020	5.8 millionWikidata, 2020
Rank by population	24th of 32in Mexico	115th of 237worldwide
Density	42 per km²	136 per km²
Capital	Chetumal	Copenhagen
Latitude range	18°N to 22°N	55°N to 58°N

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

Wikidata's official figure of 44,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 43,900 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 42,900 km² agrees with our measured area of 42,700 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain for the region; Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, 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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