Brazil

Facts

What the numbers say about Brazil

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 2.00× the size of Brazil.
• At 25 people per km², Brazil is the 141st most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Brazil lies at 11°S, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
• Laid out flat, Brazil's main territory stretches about 4,310 km north to south and 4,300 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 8,509,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 8,473,000 km², to within 2%.

How Brazil measures up

Brazil holds 48% of the land area and 49% of the people of the 13 countries listed for South America.

Where Brazil sits

• Brazil's centre lies at 10.6°S, 53.2°W, in the southern and western hemispheres, about 1,180 km from the equator.
• It straddles the equator, spanning 34°S to 5°N.

If Brazil had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Brazil would have 10.61 billion people. It has 214.2 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Brazil would have 31.5 million people. It has 214.2 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 613.0 million.

States of Brazil

Natural Earth’s file divides Brazil into 27 states and districts. Each has its own page, drawn at true size and matched to the countries closest to it in area and in people.

• Amazonas1,565,000 km²
• Pará1,231,000 km²
• Mato Grosso903,000 km²
• Minas Gerais586,000 km²
• Bahia560,000 km²
• Mato Grosso do Sul356,000 km²
• Goiás341,000 km²
• Maranhão326,000 km²

All 27 states and districts, matched to countries

Compare Brazil

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