State of Brazil
Alagoas
Alagoas is a state of Brazil. It covers about 27,600 km² (10,700 mi²), the 25th largest of the 27 states and districts in Natural Earth’s file for Brazil, and about the same size as the Solomon Islands. About 3.1 million people live there (Wikidata, 2022).
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Facts
| Area, measured | 27,600 km²10,700 mi² |
|---|---|
| Official area | 27,800 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure |
| Share of Brazil | 0.3%of the area of the 27 states and districts |
| Rank by area | 25th of 27states and districts of Brazil |
| Population | 3.1 millionWikidata, 2022 · the census year of every unit |
| Density | 113 people per km² |
| Capital | Maceió |
| Latitude range | 11°S to 9°S |
| Type | StateBR-AL |
What the numbers say about Alagoas
- Alagoas covers 0.3% of the area of Brazil and ranks 19th of 27 by population, against 25th by area.
- It would take 307 states and districts the size of Alagoas to cover Brazil.
- Alagoas holds 1.5% of the 203.1 million people that Wikidata’s 2022 figures give for the 27 states and districts together: about 1 in 65.
- The largest, Amazonas, is 56.7× the size of Alagoas; the smallest, Federal District, is 21% of it.
- Closest in size within Brazil: Sergipe (21,600 km², 1.28×) and Rio de Janeiro (44,000 km², 1.59×).
- Counted as a country, Alagoas would be larger than 96 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 144th by area, between Albania (28,300 km²) and the Solomon Islands (27,200 km²).
- With 3.1 million people it would rank 137th of 238 by population.
- Alagoas has 113 people per km², about the density of Portugal, which has 113 per km².
- That makes Alagoas the 4th most densely populated of the 27 states and districts, 4.72× the average for Brazil (24 per km²).
- Alagoas lies at 10°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, Alagoas stretches about 185 km north to south and 339 km east to west.
- Wikidata's official figure of 27,800 km² agrees with our measured area of 27,600 km², to within 2%.
About the same size as
Beside the regions of other countries
The closest region by area and by people in each of the other countries that have regional pages here, within a factor of 2. All 395 regions side by side.
- ChinaAreaHainan82% · 33,800 km²PeopleTibet86% · 3.6 million (2020)
- United StatesAreaMaryland1.08× · 25,500 km²PeopleNevada1.01× · 3.1 million (2020)
- IndiaAreaMeghalaya1.19× · 23,100 km²PeopleMeghalaya1.05× · 3.0 million (2011)
- GermanyAreaBrandenburg0.92× · 30,000 km²PeopleSchleswig-Holstein1.06× · 3.0 million (2022)
- FranceAreaBrittany1.01× · 27,300 km²PeopleNormandy0.94× · 3.3 million (2022)
- ItalyAreaSicily (Italy)1.07× · 25,900 km²PeopleTuscany84% · 3.7 million (2019)
- SpainAreaGalicia0.93× · 29,600 km²PeopleGalicia1.16× · 2.7 million (2024)
- JapanAreaIwate1.78× · 15,500 km²PeopleIbaraki1.09× · 2.9 million (2021)
- CanadaAreaNova Scotia50% · 55,100 km²PeopleAlberta73% · 4.3 million (2021)
- AustraliaAreanone within 2×PeopleWestern Australia1.04× · 3.0 million (2024)
- MexicoAreaNayarit1.02× · 27,200 km²PeopleSinaloa1.05× · 3.0 million (2015)
- ThailandAreaChiang Mai1.21× · 22,800 km²PeopleNakhon Ratchasima1.19× · 2.6 million (2020)
Where Alagoas sits in Brazil
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Sources and method
- Outline
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain
- Boundary
- De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth.
- Area
- Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline, shown rounded. The region’s whole area is counted, every island included.
- Official figures
- Area, population and capital from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-12
- Population
- Wikidata, 2022. Brazil’s units share the 2022 figures where Wikidata has them; the year is shown wherever the figure is.
- Matching
- Countries come from Natural Earth’s country file. Places whose status is contested and dependencies are never used as automatic matches. A region under 2,500 km² is matched against the small countries and island nations.
- Data built
- 2026-11-12