State of Brazil

Sergipe

Sergipe is a state of Brazil. It covers about 21,600 km² (8,340 mi²), the 26th largest of the 27 states and districts in Natural Earth’s file for Brazil, and about the same size as Djibouti. About 2.2 million people live there (Wikidata, 2022).

In area0.99×the size ofDjibouti21,800 km² In people1.07×as many people asSlovenia2.1 million

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Area, measured	21,600 km²8,340 mi²
Official area	22,100 km²Wikidata · 2.0% above our measure
Share of Brazil	0.3%of the area of the 27 states and districts
Rank by area	26th of 27states and districts of Brazil
Population	2.2 millionWikidata, 2022 · the census year of every unit
Density	102 people per km²
Capital	Aracaju
Latitude range	12°S to 10°S
Type	StateBR-SE

What the numbers say about Sergipe

Sergipe covers 0.3% of the area of Brazil and ranks 22nd of 27 by population, against 26th by area.
It would take 392 states and districts the size of Sergipe to cover Brazil.
Sergipe holds 1.1% of the 203.1 million people that Wikidata’s 2022 figures give for the 27 states and districts together: about 1 in 92.
The largest, Amazonas, is 72.5× the size of Sergipe; the smallest, Federal District, is 27% of it.
Closest in size within Brazil: Alagoas (27,600 km², 1.28×) and Rio de Janeiro (44,000 km², 2.04×).
Counted as a country, Sergipe would be larger than 87 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 153rd by area, between Djibouti (21,800 km²) and El Salvador (20,500 km²).
With 2.2 million people it would rank 146th of 238 by population.
Sergipe has 102 people per km², about the density of Slovenia, which has 102 per km².
That makes Sergipe the 5th most densely populated of the 27 states and districts, 4.27× the average for Brazil (24 per km²).
Sergipe lies at 11°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, Sergipe stretches about 227 km north to south and 201 km east to west.
Our measured 21,600 km² is 2.0% below Wikidata's official figure of 22,100 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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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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