Yucatán is 1.48× the size of Sicily (Italy)

Yucatán (state of Mexico) covers about 38,400 km² (14,800 mi²) and Sicily (Italy) (region of Italy) about 25,900 km² (9,990 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

38,400km²Yucatán
25,900km²Sicily (Italy)

100 km

Yucatán
Sicily (Italy)

What fits

Sicily (Italy) is 67% of the size of Yucatán.
Yucatán is larger by 12,500 km² (4,830 mi²), which is 48% of the area of Sicily (Italy).
Measured in Belgiums: Yucatán is about 1.25, Sicily (Italy) about 0.84.

How they differ

Yucatán is larger, but Sicily (Italy) has the larger population: 5.0 million against 2.3 million, 2.15× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 193 in Sicily (Italy) against 60 in Yucatán: Sicily (Italy) is 3.19× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 9,700 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Yucatán at 21°N is drawn about 1.1× too large and Sicily (Italy) at 38°N about 1.6×, so the map shows Yucatán as 1.07× the size of Sicily (Italy) instead of 1.48×.
Together Yucatán and Sicily (Italy) cover 64,300 km², close to the size of Latvia (64,600 km², 0.5% bigger).
The gap between them, 12,500 km², is about the size of Bahamas (12,600 km²).
At Sicily (Italy)'s density, Yucatán would have 7.4 million people (it has 2.3 million). At Yucatán's density, Sicily (Italy) would have 1.6 million (it has 5.0 million).
Sicily (Italy)'s centre is 16.8° of latitude, about 1,870 km, farther north than Yucatán's.
Yucatán is the 20th largest of the 32 states of Mexico and covers 2.0% of its area; it is the 17th most densely populated of them.
Sicily (Italy) is the largest of the 20 regions of Italy and covers 8.6% of its area; it is the 8th most densely populated of them.
Sicily (Italy) lies about 17° of latitude (roughly 1,870 km) north of Yucatán.
Shared out evenly, each person in Yucatán would have about 16,540 m² and each person in Sicily (Italy) about 5,190 m².
Laid side by side, Yucatán and Sicily (Italy) would cover 64,300 km², about the same size as Latvia.
Together they have 7.3 million people, about as many people as Kyrgyzstan.

Side by side

	Yucatán	Sicily (Italy)
Is a	StateMexico	RegionItaly
Area, measured	38,400 km²14,800 mi²	25,900 km²9,990 mi²
Official area	39,600 km²Wikidata	25,700 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	20th of 32in Mexico	1st of 20in Italy
Population	2.3 millionWikidata, 2020	5.0 millionWikidata, 2019
Rank by population	21st of 32in Mexico	4th of 20in Italy
Density	60 per km²	193 per km²
Capital	Mérida	Palermo
Latitude range	20°N to 22°N	35°N to 39°N

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2019. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Our measured 38,400 km² is 3.1% below Wikidata's official figure of 39,600 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.
Wikidata's official figure of 25,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 25,900 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 Sicily (Italy) is the provinces 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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