State of Brazil

Paraíba

Paraíba is a state of Brazil. It covers about 56,500 km² (21,800 mi²), the 21st largest of the 27 states and districts in Natural Earth’s file for Brazil, and about the same size as Togo. About 4.0 million people live there (Wikidata, 2022).

In area0.99×the size ofTogo56,900 km² In people1.01×as many people asGeorgia3.9 million

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Facts

Area, measured	56,500 km²21,800 mi²
Official area	56,600 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure
Share of Brazil	0.7%of the area of the 27 states and districts
Rank by area	21st of 27states and districts of Brazil
Population	4.0 millionWikidata, 2022 · the census year of every unit
Density	70 people per km²
Capital	João Pessoa
Latitude range	8°S to 6°S
Type	StateBR-PB

What the numbers say about Paraíba

Paraíba covers 0.7% of the area of Brazil and ranks 13th of 27 by population, against 21st by area.
It would take 150 states and districts the size of Paraíba to cover Brazil.
Paraíba holds 2.0% of the 203.1 million people that Wikidata’s 2022 figures give for the 27 states and districts together: about 1 in 51.
The largest, Amazonas, is 27.7× the size of Paraíba; the smallest, Federal District, is 10% of it.
Closest in size within Brazil: Rio Grande do Norte (52,800 km², 1.07×) and Espírito Santo (45,800 km², 1.23×).
Counted as a country, Paraíba would be larger than 113 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 127th by area, between Togo (56,900 km²) and Croatia (55,000 km²).
With 4.0 million people it would rank 130th of 238 by population.
Paraíba has 70 people per km², about the density of Croatia, which has 70 per km².
That makes Paraíba the 9th most densely populated of the 27 states and districts, 2.93× the average for Brazil (24 per km²).
Paraíba lies at 7°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, Paraíba stretches about 251 km north to south and 435 km east to west.
Wikidata's official figure of 56,600 km² agrees with our measured area of 56,500 km², to within 2%.

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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

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