Santa Catarina is 1.21× the size of Hokkaido (Japan)

Santa Catarina (state of Brazil) covers about 95,100 km² (36,700 mi²) and Hokkaido (Japan) (prefecture of Japan) about 78,800 km² (30,400 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

95,100km²Santa Catarina
78,800km²Hokkaido (Japan)

100 km

Santa Catarina
Hokkaido (Japan)

Hokkaido (Japan): Part of this region's boundary is disputed with Russia. Size Versus draws Natural Earth's de facto outline, the boundary as it is held on the ground, and takes no position on it.

What fits

Hokkaido (Japan) is 83% of the size of Santa Catarina.
Santa Catarina is larger by 16,300 km² (6,300 mi²), which is 21% of the area of Hokkaido (Japan).
Measured in Belgiums: Santa Catarina is about 3.10, Hokkaido (Japan) about 2.57.

How they differ

Santa Catarina also has the larger population: 7.6 million against 5.4 million, 1.40× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 80 in Santa Catarina against 69 in Hokkaido (Japan): Santa Catarina is 1.16× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 17,900 km apart.
On a standard web map Hokkaido (Japan) looks larger than Santa Catarina: Santa Catarina at 27°S is drawn about 1.3× too large and Hokkaido (Japan) at 43°N about 1.9×, so the map shows Hokkaido (Japan) as 1.24× the size of Santa Catarina, when Santa Catarina is 1.21× the size of Hokkaido (Japan).
Together Santa Catarina and Hokkaido (Japan) cover 174,000 km², close to the size of Uruguay (177,000 km², 2.0% bigger).
The gap between them, 16,300 km², is about the size of Eswatini (17,100 km²).
At Hokkaido (Japan)'s density, Santa Catarina would have 6.6 million people (it has 7.6 million). At Santa Catarina's density, Hokkaido (Japan) would have 6.3 million (it has 5.4 million).
Hokkaido (Japan)'s centre is 70.6° of latitude, about 7,850 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.
Hokkaido (Japan) is the largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 21% of its area; it is the 47th most densely populated of them.
Hokkaido (Japan) lies about 71° of latitude (roughly 7,850 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 Hokkaido (Japan) about 14,500 m².
Laid side by side, Santa Catarina and Hokkaido (Japan) would cover 174,000 km², about the same size as Uruguay.
Together they have 13.0 million people, 1.04× as many people as South Sudan.

Side by side

	Santa Catarina	Hokkaido (Japan)
Is a	StateBrazil	PrefectureJapan
Area, measured	95,100 km²36,700 mi²	78,800 km²30,400 mi²
Official area	95,700 km²Wikidata	83,400 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	20th of 27in Brazil	1st of 47in Japan
Population	7.6 millionWikidata, 2022	5.4 millionWikidata, 2014
Rank by population	10th of 27in Brazil	8th of 47in Japan
Density	80 per km²	69 per km²
Capital	Florianópolis	Sapporo
Latitude range	29°S to 26°S	41°N to 46°N

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2014. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 95,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 95,100 km², to within 2%.
Our measured 78,800 km² is 5.6% below Wikidata's official figure of 83,400 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.

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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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