State of Brazil
Ceará
Ceará is a state of Brazil. It covers about 150,000 km² (58,000 mi²), the 17th largest of the 27 states and districts in Natural Earth’s file for Brazil, and about the same size as Nepal. About 8.8 million people live there (Wikidata, 2022).
200 km
- Ceará
- Nepal
Facts
| Area, measured | 150,000 km²58,000 mi² |
|---|---|
| Official area | 146,000 km²Wikidata · 2.7% below our measure |
| Share of Brazil | 1.8%of the area of the 27 states and districts |
| Rank by area | 17th of 27states and districts of Brazil |
| Population | 8.8 millionWikidata, 2022 · the census year of every unit |
| Density | 59 people per km² |
| Capital | Fortaleza |
| Latitude range | 8°S to 3°S |
| Type | StateBR-CE |
What the numbers say about Ceará
- Ceará covers 1.8% of the area of Brazil and ranks 8th of 27 by population, against 17th by area.
- It would take 56.4 states and districts the size of Ceará to cover Brazil.
- Ceará holds 4.3% of the 203.1 million people that Wikidata’s 2022 figures give for the 27 states and districts together: about 1 in 23.
- The largest, Amazonas, is 10.4× the size of Ceará; the smallest, Federal District, is 3.9% of it.
- Closest in size within Brazil: Acre (154,000 km², 1.03×) and Amapá (139,000 km², 1.08×).
- Counted as a country, Ceará would be larger than 147 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 93rd by area, between Tunisia (157,000 km²) and Nepal (147,000 km²).
- With 8.8 million people it would rank 100th of 238 by population.
- Ceará has 59 people per km², about the density of Bulgaria, which has 57 per km².
- That makes Ceará the 11th most densely populated of the 27 states and districts, 2.44× the average for Brazil (24 per km²).
- Ceará lies at 5°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, Ceará stretches about 563 km north to south and 467 km east to west.
- Our measured 150,000 km² is 2.7% above Wikidata's official figure of 146,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.
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.
- ChinaAreaLiaoning1.03× · 147,000 km²PeopleHainan87% · 10.1 million (2020)
- United StatesAreaIllinois1.00× · 150,000 km²PeopleVirginia1.02× · 8.6 million (2020)
- IndiaAreaOdisha0.97× · 155,000 km²PeopleUttarakhand87% · 10.1 million (2011)
- GermanyAreanone within 2×PeopleLower Saxony1.11× · 7.9 million (2022)
- FranceAreaNouvelle-Aquitaine1.77× · 85,000 km²PeopleAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes1.08× · 8.2 million (2022)
- ItalyAreanone within 2×PeopleLombardy87% · 10.1 million (2019)
- SpainAreaCastile and León1.58× · 94,800 km²PeopleAndalusia1.02× · 8.6 million (2024)
- JapanAreaHokkaido (Japan)1.91× · 78,800 km²PeopleOsaka1.00× · 8.8 million (2021)
- CanadaAreanone within 2×PeopleQuebec1.03× · 8.5 million (2021)
- AustraliaAreaVictoria66% · 228,000 km²PeopleNew South Wales1.03× · 8.5 million (2024)
- MexicoAreaCoahuila1.00× · 151,000 km²PeopleMexico City0.99× · 8.9 million (2015)
- ThailandAreanone within 2×PeopleBangkok1.55× · 5.7 million (2018)
Where Ceará sits in Brazil
All 27 drawn on one equal-area map, so sizes are comparable. Select another to open it.
Compare Ceará
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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