Santa Catarina is 1.31× the size of New Brunswick

Santa Catarina (state of Brazil) covers about 95,100 km² (36,700 mi²) and New Brunswick (province of Canada) about 72,800 km² (28,100 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

95,100km²Santa Catarina
72,800km²New Brunswick

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Santa Catarina
New Brunswick

What fits

New Brunswick is 77% of the size of Santa Catarina.
Santa Catarina is larger by 22,300 km² (8,620 mi²), which is 31% of the area of New Brunswick.
Measured in Belgiums: Santa Catarina is about 3.10, New Brunswick about 2.37.

How they differ

Santa Catarina also has the larger population: 7.6 million against 776,000, 9.81× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 80 in Santa Catarina against 11 in New Brunswick: Santa Catarina is 7.51× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 8,370 km apart.
On a standard web map New Brunswick looks larger than Santa Catarina: Santa Catarina at 27°S is drawn about 1.3× too large and New Brunswick at 47°N about 2.1×, so the map shows New Brunswick as 1.28× the size of Santa Catarina, when Santa Catarina is 1.31× the size of New Brunswick.
Together Santa Catarina and New Brunswick cover 168,000 km², close to the size of Somaliland (167,000 km², 0.3% smaller).
The gap between them, 22,300 km², is about the size of Belize (22,300 km²).
At New Brunswick's density, Santa Catarina would have 1.0 million people (it has 7.6 million). At Santa Catarina's density, New Brunswick would have 5.8 million (it has 776,000).
New Brunswick's centre is 73.9° of latitude, about 8,210 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.
New Brunswick is the 11th largest of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and covers 0.7% of its area; it is the 4th most densely populated of them.
New Brunswick lies about 74° of latitude (roughly 8,210 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 New Brunswick about 93,840 m².
Laid side by side, Santa Catarina and New Brunswick would cover 168,000 km², 95% of the size of Uruguay.
Together they have 8.4 million people, about as many people as Honduras.

Side by side

	Santa Catarina	New Brunswick
Is a	StateBrazil	ProvinceCanada
Area, measured	95,100 km²36,700 mi²	72,800 km²28,100 mi²
Official area	95,700 km²Wikidata	72,900 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	20th of 27in Brazil	11th of 13in Canada
Population	7.6 millionWikidata, 2022	776,000Wikidata, 2021
Rank by population	10th of 27in Brazil	8th of 13in Canada
Density	80 per km²	11 per km²
Capital	Florianópolis	–
Latitude range	29°S to 26°S	45°N to 48°N

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2021. 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 72,900 km² agrees with our measured area of 72,800 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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