Santa Catarina is 1.12× the size of Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Santa Catarina (state of Brazil) covers about 95,100 km² (36,700 mi²) and Nouvelle-Aquitaine (region of France) about 85,000 km² (32,800 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

95,100km²Santa Catarina
85,000km²Nouvelle-Aquitaine

100 km

Santa Catarina
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

What fits

Nouvelle-Aquitaine is 89% of the size of Santa Catarina.
Santa Catarina is larger by 10,100 km² (3,900 mi²), which is 12% of the area of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Measured in Belgiums: Santa Catarina is about 3.10, Nouvelle-Aquitaine about 2.77.

How they differ

Santa Catarina also has the larger population: 7.6 million against 6.1 million, 1.24× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 80 in Santa Catarina against 72 in Nouvelle-Aquitaine: Santa Catarina is 1.11× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 9,550 km apart.
On a standard web map Nouvelle-Aquitaine looks larger than Santa Catarina: Santa Catarina at 27°S is drawn about 1.3× too large and Nouvelle-Aquitaine at 45°N about 2.0×, so the map shows Nouvelle-Aquitaine as 1.42× the size of Santa Catarina, when Santa Catarina is 1.12× the size of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Together Santa Catarina and Nouvelle-Aquitaine cover 180,000 km², close to the size of Cambodia (181,000 km², 0.5% bigger).
The gap between them, 10,100 km², is about the size of Lebanon (10,000 km²).
At Nouvelle-Aquitaine's density, Santa Catarina would have 6.8 million people (it has 7.6 million). At Santa Catarina's density, Nouvelle-Aquitaine would have 6.8 million (it has 6.1 million).
Nouvelle-Aquitaine's centre is 72.4° of latitude, about 8,050 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.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine is the largest of the 18 regions of France and covers 13% of its area; it is the 14th most densely populated of them.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine lies about 72° of latitude (roughly 8,050 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 Nouvelle-Aquitaine about 13,900 m².
Laid side by side, Santa Catarina and Nouvelle-Aquitaine would cover 180,000 km², about the same size as Cambodia.
Together they have 13.7 million people, about as many people as Burundi.

Side by side

	Santa Catarina	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Is a	StateBrazil	RegionFrance
Area, measured	95,100 km²36,700 mi²	85,000 km²32,800 mi²
Official area	95,700 km²Wikidata	84,100 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	20th of 27in Brazil	1st of 18in France
Population	7.6 millionWikidata, 2022	6.1 millionWikidata, 2022
Rank by population	10th of 27in Brazil	3rd of 18in France
Density	80 per km²	72 per km²
Capital	Florianópolis	Bordeaux
Latitude range	29°S to 26°S	43°N to 47°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 84,100 km² agrees with our measured area of 85,000 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 Nouvelle-Aquitaine is the departments 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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