Uruguay is 3.36× the size of Rio Grande do Norte

What fits

• Rio Grande do Norte fits inside Uruguay about 3.36 times by area.
• Uruguay is larger by 125,000 km² (48,100 mi²), which is 236% of the area of Rio Grande do Norte.
• Measured in Belgiums: Uruguay is about 5.78, Rio Grande do Norte about 1.72.

How they differ

• Uruguay also has the larger population: 3.4 million against 3.3 million, 1.04× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 63 in Rio Grande do Norte against 19 in Uruguay: Rio Grande do Norte is 3.22× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 3,610 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Uruguay at 33°S is drawn about 1.4× too large and Rio Grande do Norte at 6°S about 1.0×, so the map shows Uruguay as 4.70× the size of Rio Grande do Norte instead of 3.36×.
• Together Uruguay and Rio Grande do Norte cover 230,000 km², close to the size of Laos (228,000 km², 0.9% smaller).
• The gap between them, 125,000 km², is about the size of Eritrea (123,000 km²).
• At Rio Grande do Norte's density, Uruguay would have 11.1 million people (it has 3.4 million). At Uruguay's density, Rio Grande do Norte would have 1.0 million (it has 3.3 million).
• Rio Grande do Norte's centre is 27.0° of latitude, about 3,000 km, farther north than Uruguay's.
• Uruguay ranks 91st of 246 countries and territories by area.
• Rio Grande do Norte is the 22nd largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 0.6% of its area; it is the 10th most densely populated of them.
• Rio Grande do Norte lies about 27° of latitude (roughly 3,000 km) north of Uruguay.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Uruguay would have about 51,490 m² and each person in Rio Grande do Norte about 15,990 m².
• Laid side by side, Uruguay and Rio Grande do Norte would cover 230,000 km², about the same size as Laos.
• Together they have 6.7 million people, about as many people as Paraguay.
• Counted as a country, Rio Grande do Norte would rank 128th by area and 136th by population.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2023 and Wikidata 2022. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 176,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 177,000 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 53,300 km² agrees with our measured area of 52,800 km², to within 2%.

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