Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) is 2.1 times larger than Israel.
Area: 20,770 km2 World Factbook
Population: 7,821,850 (July 2014) World Factbook
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Rio de Janeiro is one of the 27 states of Brazil. It has the third largest economy of Brazil, with the largest being that of the state of São Paulo, and the second being that of Minas Gerais. The state of Rio de Janeiro is located within the Brazilian geopolitical region classified as the Southeast. Wikipedia