Rajasthan is 1.05× the size of Maranhão

What fits

• Maranhão is 95% of the size of Rajasthan.
• Rajasthan is larger by 16,900 km² (6,540 mi²), which is 5.2% of the area of Maranhão.
• Measured in Belgiums: Rajasthan is about 11.2, Maranhão about 10.6.

How they differ

• Rajasthan also has the larger population: 68.5 million against 6.8 million, 10.1× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 200 in Rajasthan against 21 in Maranhão: Rajasthan is 9.62× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 13,100 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Rajasthan at 27°N is drawn about 1.3× too large and Maranhão at 5°S about 1.0×, so the map shows Rajasthan as 1.31× the size of Maranhão instead of 1.05×.
• Together Rajasthan and Maranhão cover 669,000 km², close to the size of Myanmar (663,000 km², 0.9% smaller).
• The gap between them, 16,900 km², is about the size of Eswatini (17,100 km²).
• At Maranhão's density, Rajasthan would have 7.1 million people (it has 68.5 million). At Rajasthan's density, Maranhão would have 65.2 million (it has 6.8 million).
• Rajasthan's centre is 31.7° of latitude, about 3,520 km, farther north than Maranhão's.
• Rajasthan is the largest of the 36 states and union territories of India and covers 11% of its area; it is the 26th most densely populated of them.
• Maranhão is the 8th largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 3.8% of its area; it is the 16th most densely populated of them.
• Rajasthan lies about 32° of latitude (roughly 3,520 km) north of Maranhão, on the other side of the equator.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Rajasthan would have about 5,000 m² and each person in Maranhão about 48,130 m².
• Laid side by side, Rajasthan and Maranhão would cover 669,000 km², about the same size as Myanmar.
• Together they have 75.3 million people, 1.10× as many people as France.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2011 and Wikidata 2022. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 342,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 343,000 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 332,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 326,000 km², to within 2%.

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• All 36 states and union territories of Indiamatched to countries
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