Rio de Janeiro is 1.15× the size of Yucatán

What fits

• Yucatán is 87% of the size of Rio de Janeiro.
• Rio de Janeiro is larger by 5,590 km² (2,160 mi²), which is 15% of the area of Yucatán.
• Measured in Belgiums: Rio de Janeiro is about 1.43, Yucatán about 1.25.

How they differ

• Rio de Janeiro also has the larger population: 16.1 million against 2.3 million, 6.92× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 365 in Rio de Janeiro against 60 in Yucatán: Rio de Janeiro is 6.04× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 6,930 km apart.
• Together Rio de Janeiro and Yucatán cover 82,400 km², close to the size of Austria (84,000 km², 2.0% bigger).
• The gap between them, 5,590 km², is about the size of Brunei (5,720 km²).
• At Yucatán's density, Rio de Janeiro would have 2.7 million people (it has 16.1 million). At Rio de Janeiro's density, Yucatán would have 14.0 million (it has 2.3 million).
• Yucatán's centre is 43.0° of latitude, about 4,780 km, farther north than Rio de Janeiro's.
• Rio de Janeiro is the 24th largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 0.5% of its area; it is the 2nd most densely populated of them.
• Yucatán is the 20th largest of the 32 states of Mexico and covers 2.0% of its area; it is the 17th most densely populated of them.
• Yucatán lies about 43° of latitude (roughly 4,780 km) north of Rio de Janeiro, on the other side of the equator.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Rio de Janeiro would have about 2,740 m² and each person in Yucatán about 16,540 m².
• Laid side by side, Rio de Janeiro and Yucatán would cover 82,400 km², about the same size as Austria.
• Together they have 18.4 million people, about as many people as the Netherlands.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2020. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 43,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 44,000 km², to within 2%.
• Our measured 38,400 km² is 3.1% below Wikidata's official figure of 39,600 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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