Santa Catarina is 1.08× the size of Andalusia

Santa Catarina (state of Brazil) covers about 95,100 km² (36,700 mi²) and Andalusia (autonomous community of Spain) about 87,700 km² (33,900 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

95,100km²Santa Catarina
87,700km²Andalusia

100 km

Santa Catarina
Andalusia

What fits

Andalusia is 92% of the size of Santa Catarina.
Santa Catarina is larger by 7,400 km² (2,860 mi²), which is 8.4% of the area of Andalusia.
Measured in Belgiums: Santa Catarina is about 3.10, Andalusia about 2.86.

How they differ

Santa Catarina is larger, but Andalusia has the larger population: 8.6 million against 7.6 million, 1.13× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 98 in Andalusia against 80 in Santa Catarina: Andalusia is 1.23× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 8,640 km apart.
On a standard web map Andalusia looks larger than Santa Catarina: Santa Catarina at 27°S is drawn about 1.3× too large and Andalusia at 37°N about 1.6×, so the map shows Andalusia as 1.16× the size of Santa Catarina, when Santa Catarina is 1.08× the size of Andalusia.
Together Santa Catarina and Andalusia cover 183,000 km², close to the size of Cambodia (181,000 km², 0.9% smaller).
The gap between them, 7,400 km², is about the size of Palestine (6,070 km²).
At Andalusia's density, Santa Catarina would have 9.3 million people (it has 7.6 million). At Santa Catarina's density, Andalusia would have 7.0 million (it has 8.6 million).
Andalusia's centre is 64.7° of latitude, about 7,200 km, farther north than Santa Catarina's.
Santa Catarina is the 20th largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 1.1% of its area; it is the 8th most densely populated of them.
Andalusia is the 2nd largest of the 19 autonomous communities and cities of Spain and covers 17% of its area; it is the 11th most densely populated of them.
Andalusia lies about 65° of latitude (roughly 7,200 km) north of Santa Catarina, on the other side of the equator.
Shared out evenly, each person in Santa Catarina would have about 12,500 m² and each person in Andalusia about 10,170 m².
Laid side by side, Santa Catarina and Andalusia would cover 183,000 km², about the same size as Cambodia.
Together they have 16.2 million people, 96% as many people as Senegal.

Side by side

	Santa Catarina	Andalusia
Is a	StateBrazil	Autonomous communitySpain
Area, measured	95,100 km²36,700 mi²	87,700 km²33,900 mi²
Official area	95,700 km²Wikidata	87,300 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	20th of 27in Brazil	2nd of 19in Spain
Population	7.6 millionWikidata, 2022	8.6 millionWikidata, 2024
Rank by population	10th of 27in Brazil	1st of 19in Spain
Density	80 per km²	98 per km²
Capital	Florianópolis	Seville
Latitude range	29°S to 26°S	36°N to 39°N

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

Wikidata's official figure of 95,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 95,100 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 87,300 km² agrees with our measured area of 87,700 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 Andalusia 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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