Santa Catarina is 1.33× the size of Sierra Leone

Santa Catarina (state of Brazil) covers about 95,100 km² (36,700 mi²) and Sierra Leone (Africa) about 71,600 km² (27,600 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

95,100km²Santa Catarina
71,600km²Sierra Leone

100 km

Santa Catarina
Sierra Leone

What fits

Sierra Leone is 75% of the size of Santa Catarina.
Santa Catarina is larger by 23,500 km² (9,070 mi²), which is 33% of the area of Sierra Leone.
Measured in Belgiums: Santa Catarina is about 3.10, Sierra Leone about 2.33.

How they differ

Santa Catarina also has the larger population: 7.6 million against 7.6 million, 1.01× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 106 in Sierra Leone against 80 in Santa Catarina: Sierra Leone is 1.32× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 5,760 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Santa Catarina at 27°S is drawn about 1.3× too large and Sierra Leone at 9°N about 1.0×, so the map shows Santa Catarina as 1.64× the size of Sierra Leone instead of 1.33×.
Together Santa Catarina and Sierra Leone cover 167,000 km², close to the size of Somaliland (167,000 km², 0.4% bigger).
The gap between them, 23,500 km², is about the size of Belize (22,300 km²).
At Sierra Leone's density, Santa Catarina would have 10.0 million people (it has 7.6 million). At Santa Catarina's density, Sierra Leone would have 5.7 million (it has 7.6 million).
Sierra Leone's centre is 35.8° of latitude, about 3,980 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.
Sierra Leone ranks 120th of 246 countries and territories by area.
Sierra Leone lies about 36° of latitude (roughly 3,980 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 Sierra Leone about 9,480 m².
Laid side by side, Santa Catarina and Sierra Leone would cover 167,000 km², 94% of the size of Uruguay.
Together they have 15.2 million people, about as many people as Zimbabwe.
Counted as a country, Santa Catarina would rank 110th by area and 102nd by population.

Side by side

	Santa Catarina	Sierra Leone
Is a	StateBrazil	CountryAfrica
Area, measured	95,100 km²36,700 mi²	71,600 km²27,600 mi²
Official area	95,700 km²Wikidata	71,700 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	20th of 27in Brazil	119th of 239worldwide
Population	7.6 millionWikidata, 2022	7.6 millionWikidata, 2017
Rank by population	10th of 27in Brazil	102nd of 237worldwide
Density	80 per km²	106 per km²
Capital	Florianópolis	Freetown
Latitude range	29°S to 26°S	7°N to 10°N

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2017. 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 71,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 71,600 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain for the region; Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, 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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