Tasmania (Australia) is 1.06× the size of San Luis Potosí

Tasmania (Australia) (state of Australia) covers about 68,100 km² (26,300 mi²) and San Luis Potosí (state of Mexico) about 64,200 km² (24,800 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

68,100km²Tasmania (Australia)
64,200km²San Luis Potosí

100 km

Tasmania (Australia)
San Luis Potosí

What fits

San Luis Potosí is 94% of the size of Tasmania (Australia).
Tasmania (Australia) is larger by 3,910 km² (1,510 mi²), which is 6.1% of the area of San Luis Potosí.
Measured in Belgiums: Tasmania (Australia) is about 2.22, San Luis Potosí about 2.09.

How they differ

Tasmania (Australia) is larger, but San Luis Potosí has the larger population: 2.7 million against 540,000, 5.04× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 42 in San Luis Potosí against 7.9 in Tasmania (Australia): San Luis Potosí is 5.34× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 13,500 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Tasmania (Australia) at 42°S is drawn about 1.8× too large and San Luis Potosí at 23°N about 1.2×, so the map shows Tasmania (Australia) as 1.63× the size of San Luis Potosí instead of 1.06×.
Together Tasmania (Australia) and San Luis Potosí cover 132,000 km², close to the size of Greece (131,000 km², 0.7% smaller).
The gap between them, 3,910 km², is about the size of Cape Verde (3,930 km²).
At San Luis Potosí's density, Tasmania (Australia) would have 2.9 million people (it has 540,000). At Tasmania (Australia)'s density, San Luis Potosí would have 509,000 (it has 2.7 million).
San Luis Potosí's centre is 64.5° of latitude, about 7,180 km, farther north than Tasmania (Australia)'s.
Tasmania (Australia) is the 7th largest of the 8 states and territories of Australia and covers 0.9% of its area; it is the 4th most densely populated of them.
San Luis Potosí is the 15th largest of the 32 states of Mexico and covers 3.3% of its area; it is the 25th most densely populated of them.
San Luis Potosí lies about 65° of latitude (roughly 7,180 km) north of Tasmania (Australia), on the other side of the equator.
Shared out evenly, each person in Tasmania (Australia) would have about 126,230 m² and each person in San Luis Potosí about 23,620 m².
Laid side by side, Tasmania (Australia) and San Luis Potosí would cover 132,000 km², about the same size as Greece.
Together they have 3.3 million people, 96% as many people as Mongolia.

Side by side

	Tasmania (Australia)	San Luis Potosí
Is a	StateAustralia	StateMexico
Area, measured	68,100 km²26,300 mi²	64,200 km²24,800 mi²
Official area	68,400 km²Wikidata	61,000 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	7th of 8in Australia	15th of 32in Mexico
Population	540,000Wikidata, 2020	2.7 millionWikidata, 2015
Rank by population	6th of 8in Australia	19th of 32in Mexico
Density	7.9 per km²	42 per km²
Capital	Hobart	San Luis Potosí
Latitude range	44°S to 40°S	21°N to 25°N

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2015. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 68,400 km² agrees with our measured area of 68,100 km², to within 2%.
Our measured 64,200 km² is 5.3% above Wikidata's official figure of 61,000 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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