Santa Catarina is 1.20× the size of Castilla–La Mancha

Santa Catarina (state of Brazil) covers about 95,100 km² (36,700 mi²) and Castilla–La Mancha (autonomous community of Spain) about 79,400 km² (30,700 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

95,100km²Santa Catarina
79,400km²Castilla–La Mancha

100 km

Santa Catarina
Castilla–La Mancha

What fits

Castilla–La Mancha is 84% of the size of Santa Catarina.
Santa Catarina is larger by 15,700 km² (6,060 mi²), which is 20% of the area of Castilla–La Mancha.
Measured in Belgiums: Santa Catarina is about 3.10, Castilla–La Mancha about 2.59.

How they differ

Santa Catarina also has the larger population: 7.6 million against 2.1 million, 3.63× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 80 in Santa Catarina against 26 in Castilla–La Mancha: Santa Catarina is 3.03× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 8,910 km apart.
On a standard web map Castilla–La Mancha looks larger than Santa Catarina: Santa Catarina at 27°S is drawn about 1.3× too large and Castilla–La Mancha at 40°N about 1.7×, so the map shows Castilla–La Mancha as 1.11× the size of Santa Catarina, when Santa Catarina is 1.20× the size of Castilla–La Mancha.
Together Santa Catarina and Castilla–La Mancha cover 175,000 km², close to the size of Uruguay (177,000 km², 1.6% bigger).
The gap between them, 15,700 km², is about the size of East Timor (15,100 km²).
At Castilla–La Mancha's density, Santa Catarina would have 2.5 million people (it has 7.6 million). At Santa Catarina's density, Castilla–La Mancha would have 6.4 million (it has 2.1 million).
Castilla–La Mancha's centre is 66.8° of latitude, about 7,430 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.
Castilla–La Mancha is the 3rd largest of the 19 autonomous communities and cities of Spain and covers 16% of its area; it is the 17th most densely populated of them.
Castilla–La Mancha lies about 67° of latitude (roughly 7,430 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 Castilla–La Mancha about 37,830 m².
Laid side by side, Santa Catarina and Castilla–La Mancha would cover 175,000 km², about the same size as Uruguay.
Together they have 9.7 million people, about as many people as Hungary.

Side by side

	Santa Catarina	Castilla–La Mancha
Is a	StateBrazil	Autonomous communitySpain
Area, measured	95,100 km²36,700 mi²	79,400 km²30,700 mi²
Official area	95,700 km²Wikidata	79,500 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	20th of 27in Brazil	3rd of 19in Spain
Population	7.6 millionWikidata, 2022	2.1 millionWikidata, 2024
Rank by population	10th of 27in Brazil	9th of 19in Spain
Density	80 per km²	26 per km²
Capital	Florianópolis	Toledo
Latitude range	29°S to 26°S	38°N to 41°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 79,500 km² agrees with our measured area of 79,400 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 Castilla–La Mancha 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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