State of Brazil
Tocantins
Tocantins is a state of Brazil. It covers about 279,000 km² (108,000 mi²), the 9th largest of the 27 states and districts in Natural Earth’s file for Brazil, and about the same size as Burkina Faso. About 1.5 million people live there (Wikidata, 2022).
200 km
- Tocantins
- Burkina Faso
Facts
| Area, measured | 279,000 km²108,000 mi² |
|---|---|
| Official area | 278,000 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure |
| Share of Brazil | 3.3%of the area of the 27 states and districts |
| Rank by area | 9th of 27states and districts of Brazil |
| Population | 1.5 millionWikidata, 2022 · the census year of every unit |
| Density | 5.4 people per km² |
| Capital | Palmas |
| Latitude range | 13°S to 5°S |
| Type | StateBR-TO |
What the numbers say about Tocantins
- Tocantins covers 3.3% of the area of Brazil and ranks 24th of 27 by population, against 9th by area.
- It would take 30.4 states and districts the size of Tocantins to cover Brazil.
- Tocantins holds 0.7% of the 203.1 million people that Wikidata’s 2022 figures give for the 27 states and districts together: about 1 in 134.
- The largest, Amazonas, is 5.61× the size of Tocantins; the smallest, Federal District, is 2.1% of it.
- Closest in size within Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul (272,000 km², 1.02×) and Piauí (252,000 km², 1.11×).
- Counted as a country, Tocantins would be larger than 166 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 74th by area, between the Philippines (293,000 km²) and Burkina Faso (273,000 km²).
- With 1.5 million people it would rank 155th of 238 by population.
- Tocantins has 5.4 people per km², about the density of Mauritania, which has 4.6 per km².
- That makes Tocantins the 22nd most densely populated of the 27 states and districts, 23% of the average for Brazil (24 per km²).
- Tocantins lies at 10°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, Tocantins stretches about 914 km north to south and 544 km east to west.
- Wikidata's official figure of 278,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 279,000 km², to within 2%.
- Until 1988, Goiás covered what is now Goiás and Tocantins. Added together, today’s outlines measure 620,000 km², about the same size as the Central African Republic: as one unit they would be the 4th largest of 26, with 8.6 million people (2022 figures added up) the 9th most populous.
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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.
- ChinaAreaGuangxi1.18× · 237,000 km²Peoplenone within 2×
- United StatesAreaNevada0.97× · 287,000 km²PeopleHawaii1.04× · 1.5 million (2020)
- IndiaAreaMaharashtra0.91× · 307,000 km²PeopleGoa1.04× · 1.5 million (2011)
- GermanyAreanone within 2×PeopleMecklenburg-Western Pomerania0.96× · 1.6 million (2022)
- FranceAreanone within 2×PeopleCentre-Val de Loire59% · 2.6 million (2022)
- ItalyAreanone within 2×PeopleMarche0.99× · 1.5 million (2019)
- SpainAreanone within 2×PeopleMurcia0.96× · 1.6 million (2024)
- JapanAreanone within 2×PeopleOkinawa1.03× · 1.5 million (2021)
- CanadaAreaNewfoundland and Labrador69% · 403,000 km²PeopleManitoba1.13× · 1.3 million (2021)
- AustraliaAreaVictoria1.22× · 228,000 km²PeopleSouth Australia80% · 1.9 million (2024)
- MexicoAreaChihuahua1.12× · 248,000 km²PeopleZacatecas89% · 1.7 million (2015)
- ThailandAreanone within 2×PeopleNakhon Si Thammarat0.97× · 1.6 million (2020)
Where Tocantins 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