Quintana Roo is 1.70× the size of Sicily (Italy)

Quintana Roo (state of Mexico) covers about 43,900 km² (16,900 mi²) and Sicily (Italy) (region of Italy) about 25,900 km² (9,990 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

43,900km²Quintana Roo
25,900km²Sicily (Italy)

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Quintana Roo
Sicily (Italy)

What fits

Sicily (Italy) is 59% of the size of Quintana Roo.
Quintana Roo is larger by 18,000 km² (6,950 mi²), which is 70% of the area of Sicily (Italy).
Measured in Belgiums: Quintana Roo is about 1.43, Sicily (Italy) about 0.84.

How they differ

Quintana Roo is larger, but Sicily (Italy) has the larger population: 5.0 million against 1.9 million, 2.68× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 193 in Sicily (Italy) against 42 in Quintana Roo: Sicily (Italy) is 4.55× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 9,710 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Quintana Roo at 20°N is drawn about 1.1× too large and Sicily (Italy) at 38°N about 1.6×, so the map shows Quintana Roo as 1.20× the size of Sicily (Italy) instead of 1.70×.
Together Quintana Roo and Sicily (Italy) cover 69,700 km², close to the size of Georgia (69,600 km², 0.2% smaller).
The gap between them, 18,000 km², is about the size of Kuwait (17,500 km²).
At Sicily (Italy)'s density, Quintana Roo would have 8.5 million people (it has 1.9 million). At Quintana Roo's density, Sicily (Italy) would have 1.1 million (it has 5.0 million).
Sicily (Italy)'s centre is 17.9° of latitude, about 1,990 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.
Sicily (Italy) is the largest of the 20 regions of Italy and covers 8.6% of its area; it is the 8th most densely populated of them.
Sicily (Italy) lies about 18° of latitude (roughly 1,990 km) north of Quintana Roo.
Shared out evenly, each person in Quintana Roo would have about 23,610 m² and each person in Sicily (Italy) about 5,190 m².
Laid side by side, Quintana Roo and Sicily (Italy) would cover 69,700 km², about the same size as Georgia.
Together they have 6.8 million people, about as many people as Laos.

Side by side

	Quintana Roo	Sicily (Italy)
Is a	StateMexico	RegionItaly
Area, measured	43,900 km²16,900 mi²	25,900 km²9,990 mi²
Official area	44,700 km²Wikidata	25,700 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	19th of 32in Mexico	1st of 20in Italy
Population	1.9 millionWikidata, 2020	5.0 millionWikidata, 2019
Rank by population	24th of 32in Mexico	4th of 20in Italy
Density	42 per km²	193 per km²
Capital	Chetumal	Palermo
Latitude range	18°N to 22°N	35°N to 39°N

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2019. 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 25,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 25,900 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 Sicily (Italy) 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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