Rio Grande do Sul is 1.19× the size of Victoria

What fits

• Victoria is 84% of the size of Rio Grande do Sul.
• Rio Grande do Sul is larger by 44,300 km² (17,100 mi²), which is 19% of the area of Victoria.
• Measured in Belgiums: Rio Grande do Sul is about 8.88, Victoria about 7.43.

How they differ

• Rio Grande do Sul also has the larger population: 10.9 million against 7.0 million, 1.55× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 40 in Rio Grande do Sul against 31 in Victoria: Rio Grande do Sul is 1.30× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 12,400 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Rio Grande do Sul at 30°S is drawn about 1.3× too large and Victoria at 37°S about 1.6×, so the map shows Rio Grande do Sul as 1.01× the size of Victoria instead of 1.19×.
• Together Rio Grande do Sul and Victoria cover 500,000 km², close to the size of Spain (499,000 km², 0.2% smaller).
• The gap between them, 44,300 km², is about the size of Estonia (45,800 km²).
• At Victoria's density, Rio Grande do Sul would have 8.4 million people (it has 10.9 million). At Rio Grande do Sul's density, Victoria would have 9.1 million (it has 7.0 million).
• Rio Grande do Sul's centre is 7.1° of latitude, about 790 km, farther north than Victoria's.
• Rio Grande do Sul is the 10th largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 3.2% of its area; it is the 13th most densely populated of them.
• Victoria is the 6th largest of the 8 states and territories of Australia and covers 3.0% of its area; it is the 2nd most densely populated of them.
• Rio Grande do Sul lies about 7° of latitude (roughly 794 km) north of Victoria.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Rio Grande do Sul would have about 25,020 m² and each person in Victoria about 32,510 m².
• Laid side by side, Rio Grande do Sul and Victoria would cover 500,000 km², about the same size as Spain.
• Together they have 17.9 million people, about as many people as the Netherlands.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2024. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Our measured 272,000 km² is 3.3% below Wikidata's official figure of 282,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.
• Wikidata's official figure of 227,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 228,000 km², to within 2%.

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