Texas is 1.17× the size of Minas Gerais

What fits

• Minas Gerais is 86% of the size of Texas.
• Texas is larger by 99,000 km² (38,200 mi²), which is 17% of the area of Minas Gerais.
• Measured in Belgiums: Texas is about 22.3, Minas Gerais about 19.1.

How they differ

• Texas also has the larger population: 29.1 million against 20.5 million, 1.42× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 43 in Texas against 35 in Minas Gerais: Texas is 1.21× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 8,050 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Texas at 31°N is drawn about 1.4× too large and Minas Gerais at 18°S about 1.1×, so the map shows Texas as 1.45× the size of Minas Gerais instead of 1.17×.
• Together Texas and Minas Gerais cover 1,272,000 km², close to the size of Chad (1,266,000 km², 0.4% smaller).
• The gap between them, 99,000 km², is about the size of South Korea (98,500 km²).
• At Minas Gerais's density, Texas would have 24.0 million people (it has 29.1 million). At Texas's density, Minas Gerais would have 24.9 million (it has 20.5 million).
• Texas's centre is 49.9° of latitude, about 5,550 km, farther north than Minas Gerais's.
• Texas is the 2nd largest of the 51 states and districts of the United States and covers 7.2% of its area; it is the 24th most densely populated of them.
• Minas Gerais is the 4th largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 6.9% of its area; it is the 14th most densely populated of them.
• Texas lies about 50° of latitude (roughly 5,550 km) north of Minas Gerais, on the other side of the equator.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Texas would have about 23,510 m² and each person in Minas Gerais about 28,550 m².
• Laid side by side, Texas and Minas Gerais would cover 1,272,000 km², about the same size as Chad.
• Together they have 49.7 million people, about as many people as Spain.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2022. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 696,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 685,000 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 587,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 586,000 km², to within 2%.

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