Santa Catarina is 1.36× the size of Bavaria

Santa Catarina (state of Brazil) covers about 95,100 km² (36,700 mi²) and Bavaria (state of Germany) about 70,000 km² (27,000 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

95,100km²Santa Catarina
70,000km²Bavaria

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Santa Catarina
Bavaria

What fits

Bavaria is 74% of the size of Santa Catarina.
Santa Catarina is larger by 25,100 km² (9,680 mi²), which is 36% of the area of Bavaria.
Measured in Belgiums: Santa Catarina is about 3.10, Bavaria about 2.28.

How they differ

Santa Catarina is larger, but Bavaria has the larger population: 13.0 million against 7.6 million, 1.71× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 186 in Bavaria against 80 in Santa Catarina: Bavaria is 2.33× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 10,500 km apart.
On a standard web map Bavaria looks larger than Santa Catarina: Santa Catarina at 27°S is drawn about 1.3× too large and Bavaria at 49°N about 2.3×, so the map shows Bavaria as 1.35× the size of Santa Catarina, when Santa Catarina is 1.36× the size of Bavaria.
Together Santa Catarina and Bavaria cover 165,000 km², close to the size of Somaliland (167,000 km², 1.4% bigger).
The gap between them, 25,100 km², is about the size of Rwanda (25,300 km²).
At Bavaria's density, Santa Catarina would have 17.7 million people (it has 7.6 million). At Santa Catarina's density, Bavaria would have 5.6 million (it has 13.0 million).
Bavaria's centre is 76.2° of latitude, about 8,470 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.
Bavaria is the largest of the 16 states of Germany and covers 20% of its area; it is the 11th most densely populated of them.
Bavaria lies about 76° of latitude (roughly 8,470 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 Bavaria about 5,370 m².
Laid side by side, Santa Catarina and Bavaria would cover 165,000 km², 1.05× the size of Tunisia.
Together they have 20.6 million people, about as many people as Kazakhstan.

Side by side

	Santa Catarina	Bavaria
Is a	StateBrazil	StateGermany
Area, measured	95,100 km²36,700 mi²	70,000 km²27,000 mi²
Official area	95,700 km²Wikidata	70,600 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	20th of 27in Brazil	1st of 16in Germany
Population	7.6 millionWikidata, 2022	13.0 millionWikidata, 2022
Rank by population	10th of 27in Brazil	2nd of 16in Germany
Density	80 per km²	186 per km²
Capital	Florianópolis	Munich
Latitude range	29°S to 26°S	47°N to 51°N

Population: Wikidata 2022. 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 70,600 km² agrees with our measured area of 70,000 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain
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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