State of Brazil
Pará
Pará is a state of Brazil. It covers about 1,231,000 km² (475,000 mi²), the 2nd largest of the 27 states and districts in Natural Earth’s file for Brazil, and about the same size as South Africa. About 8.1 million people live there (Wikidata, 2022).
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- Pará
- South Africa
Facts
| Area, measured | 1,231,000 km²475,000 mi² |
|---|---|
| Official area | 1,246,000 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure |
| Share of Brazil | 15%of the area of the 27 states and districts |
| Rank by area | 2nd of 27states and districts of Brazil |
| Population | 8.1 millionWikidata, 2022 · the census year of every unit |
| Density | 6.6 people per km² |
| Capital | Belém |
| Latitude range | 10°S to 3°N |
| Type | StateBR-PA |
What the numbers say about Pará
- Pará covers 15% of the area of Brazil and ranks 9th of 27 by population, against 2nd by area.
- It would take 6.88 states and districts the size of Pará to cover Brazil.
- Pará holds 4.0% of the 203.1 million people that Wikidata’s 2022 figures give for the 27 states and districts together: about 1 in 25.
- The largest, Amazonas, is 1.27× the size of Pará; the smallest, Federal District, is 0.5% of it.
- Closest in size within Brazil: Amazonas (1,565,000 km², 1.27×) and Mato Grosso (903,000 km², 1.36×).
- Counted as a country, Pará would be larger than 216 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 24th by area, between Angola (1,245,000 km²) and South Africa (1,220,000 km²).
- With 8.1 million people it would rank 101st of 238 by population.
- Pará has 6.6 people per km², about the density of Kazakhstan, which has 7.4 per km².
- That makes Pará the 21st most densely populated of the 27 states and districts, 28% of the average for Brazil (24 per km²).
- Pará lies at 4°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, Pará stretches about 1,380 km north to south and 1,440 km east to west.
- Wikidata's official figure of 1,246,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,231,000 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.
- ChinaAreaInner Mongolia1.08× · 1,144,000 km²PeopleNingxia1.13× · 7.2 million (2020)
- United StatesAreaAlaska82% · 1,505,000 km²PeopleWashington State1.05× · 7.7 million (2020)
- IndiaAreanone within 2×PeopleHimachal Pradesh1.18× · 6.9 million (2011)
- GermanyAreanone within 2×PeopleLower Saxony1.02× · 7.9 million (2022)
- FranceAreanone within 2×PeopleAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes0.99× · 8.2 million (2022)
- ItalyAreanone within 2×PeopleLombardy81% · 10.1 million (2019)
- SpainAreanone within 2×PeopleCatalonia1.01× · 8.0 million (2024)
- JapanAreanone within 2×PeopleAichi1.08× · 7.5 million (2021)
- CanadaAreaNorthwest Territories0.91× · 1,348,000 km²PeopleQuebec0.96× · 8.5 million (2021)
- AustraliaAreaNorthern Territory0.91× · 1,348,000 km²PeopleNew South Wales0.95× · 8.5 million (2024)
- MexicoAreanone within 2×PeopleVeracruz1.00× · 8.1 million (2015)
- ThailandAreanone within 2×PeopleBangkok1.43× · 5.7 million (2018)
Where Pará 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