Quintana Roo is 3.14× the size of Fukushima

Quintana Roo (state of Mexico) covers about 43,900 km² (16,900 mi²) and Fukushima (prefecture of Japan) about 14,000 km² (5,400 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

43,900km²Quintana Roo
14,000km²Fukushima

50 km

Quintana Roo
Fukushima

What fits

Fukushima fits inside Quintana Roo about 3.14 times by area.
Quintana Roo is larger by 29,900 km² (11,500 mi²), which is 214% of the area of Fukushima.
Measured in Belgiums: Quintana Roo is about 1.43, Fukushima about 0.46.

How they differ

Quintana Roo also has the larger population: 1.9 million against 1.8 million, 1.02× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 131 in Fukushima against 42 in Quintana Roo: Fukushima is 3.08× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 11,900 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Quintana Roo at 20°N is drawn about 1.1× too large and Fukushima at 37°N about 1.6×, so the map shows Quintana Roo as 2.23× the size of Fukushima instead of 3.14×.
Together Quintana Roo and Fukushima cover 57,900 km², close to the size of Togo (56,900 km², 1.7% smaller).
The gap between them, 29,900 km², is about the size of Lesotho (30,100 km²).
At Fukushima's density, Quintana Roo would have 5.7 million people (it has 1.9 million). At Quintana Roo's density, Fukushima would have 592,000 (it has 1.8 million).
Fukushima's centre is 17.7° of latitude, about 1,970 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.
Fukushima is the 3rd largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 3.7% of its area; it is the 40th most densely populated of them.
Fukushima lies about 18° of latitude (roughly 1,970 km) north of Quintana Roo.
Shared out evenly, each person in Quintana Roo would have about 23,610 m² and each person in Fukushima about 7,660 m².
Laid side by side, Quintana Roo and Fukushima would cover 57,900 km², about the same size as Togo.
Together they have 3.7 million people, 97% as many people as Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Side by side

	Quintana Roo	Fukushima
Is a	StateMexico	PrefectureJapan
Area, measured	43,900 km²16,900 mi²	14,000 km²5,400 mi²
Official area	44,700 km²Wikidata	13,800 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	19th of 32in Mexico	3rd of 47in Japan
Population	1.9 millionWikidata, 2020	1.8 millionWikidata, 2021
Rank by population	24th of 32in Mexico	21st of 47in Japan
Density	42 per km²	131 per km²
Capital	Chetumal	Fukushima
Latitude range	18°N to 22°N	37°N to 38°N

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2021. 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 13,800 km² agrees with our measured area of 14,000 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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