State of Brazil

Santa Catarina

Santa Catarina is a state of Brazil. It covers about 95,100 km² (36,700 mi²), the 20th largest of the 27 states and districts in Natural Earth’s file for Brazil, and about the same size as Liberia. About 7.6 million people live there (Wikidata, 2022).

In area1.00×the size ofLiberia95,300 km² In people1.01×as many people asSierra Leone7.6 million

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Facts

Area, measured	95,100 km²36,700 mi²
Official area	95,700 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure
Share of Brazil	1.1%of the area of the 27 states and districts
Rank by area	20th of 27states and districts of Brazil
Population	7.6 millionWikidata, 2022 · the census year of every unit
Density	80 people per km²
Capital	Florianópolis
Latitude range	29°S to 26°S
Type	StateBR-SC

What the numbers say about Santa Catarina

Santa Catarina covers 1.1% of the area of Brazil and ranks 10th of 27 by population, against 20th by area.
It would take 89.1 states and districts the size of Santa Catarina to cover Brazil.
Santa Catarina holds 3.7% of the 203.1 million people that Wikidata’s 2022 figures give for the 27 states and districts together: about 1 in 27.
The largest, Amazonas, is 16.5× the size of Santa Catarina; the smallest, Federal District, is 6.1% of it.
Closest in size within Brazil: Pernambuco (97,600 km², 1.03×) and Amapá (139,000 km², 1.46×).
Counted as a country, Santa Catarina would be larger than 130 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 110th by area, between Liberia (95,300 km²) and Hungary (93,200 km²).
With 7.6 million people it would rank 102nd of 238 by population.
Santa Catarina has 80 people per km², about the density of Greece, which has 80 per km².
That makes Santa Catarina the 8th most densely populated of the 27 states and districts, 3.34× the average for Brazil (24 per km²).
On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 27°S is drawn about 1.3× too large in area, so Santa Catarina looks bigger there than it is.
Laid out flat, Santa Catarina stretches about 374 km north to south and 540 km east to west.
Wikidata's official figure of 95,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 95,100 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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About the same size as

About as many people as

Beside the regions of other countries

Where Santa Catarina sits in Brazil

Ranked within Brazil

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