Province of Canada

New Brunswick

New Brunswick is a province of Canada. It covers about 72,800 km² (28,100 mi²), the 11th largest of the 13 provinces and territories in Natural Earth’s file for Canada, and about the same size as Sierra Leone. About 776,000 people live there (Wikidata, 2021).

In area1.02×the size ofSierra Leone71,600 km² In people0.98×as many people asBhutan787,000

100 km

New Brunswick
Sierra Leone

Facts

Area, measured	72,800 km²28,100 mi²
Official area	72,900 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure
Share of Canada	0.7%of the area of the 13 provinces and territories
Rank by area	11th of 13provinces and territories of Canada
Population	776,000Wikidata, 2021 · the census year of every unit
Density	11 people per km²
Latitude range	45°N to 48°N
Type	ProvinceCA-NB

What the numbers say about New Brunswick

New Brunswick covers 0.7% of the area of Canada and ranks 8th of 13 by population, against 11th by area.
It would take 137 provinces and territories the size of New Brunswick to cover Canada.
New Brunswick holds 2.1% of the 37.0 million people that Wikidata’s 2021 figures give for the 13 provinces and territories together: about 1 in 48.
The largest, Nunavut, is 28.6× the size of New Brunswick; the smallest, Prince Edward Island, is 7.9% of it.
Closest in size within Canada: Nova Scotia (55,100 km², 1.32×) and Newfoundland and Labrador (403,000 km², 5.54×).
Counted as a country, New Brunswick would be larger than 121 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 119th by area, between Panama (74,500 km²) and Sierra Leone (71,600 km²).
With 776,000 people it would rank 166th of 238 by population.
New Brunswick has 11 people per km², about the density of Bolivia, which has 11 per km².
That makes New Brunswick the 4th most densely populated of the 13 provinces and territories, 2.87× the average for Canada (3.7 per km²).
On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 47°N is drawn about 2.1× too large in area, so New Brunswick looks bigger there than it is.
Laid out flat, New Brunswick stretches about 386 km north to south and 403 km east to west.
Wikidata's official figure of 72,900 km² agrees with our measured area of 72,800 km², to within 2%.

About the same size as

About as many people 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.

ChinaAreaChongqing88% · 82,400 km²Peoplenone within 2×
United StatesAreaSouth Carolina0.91× · 80,200 km² PeopleNorth Dakota1.00× · 779,000 (2020)
IndiaAreaJharkhand0.93× · 77,900 km² PeopleSikkim1.18× · 658,000 (2011)
GermanyAreaBavaria1.04× · 70,000 km² PeopleBremen1.12× · 693,000 (2022)
FranceAreaOccitania0.99× · 73,500 km² PeopleRéunion (France)88% · 881,000 (2022)
ItalyAreanone within 2×PeopleUmbria88% · 882,000 (2019)
SpainAreaCastilla–La Mancha0.92× · 79,400 km² PeopleNavarre1.14× · 678,000 (2024)
JapanAreaHokkaido (Japan)0.92× · 78,800 km² PeopleFukui1.01× · 765,000 (2021)
BrazilAreaParaíba1.29× · 56,500 km² PeopleAmapá1.06× · 734,000 (2022)
AustraliaAreaTasmania (Australia)1.07× · 68,100 km² PeopleTasmania (Australia)1.44× · 540,000 (2020)
MexicoAreaBaja California1.00× · 72,900 km² PeopleColima1.06× · 731,000 (2020)
ThailandAreanone within 2×PeopleNarathiwat0.96× · 804,000 (2020)

Where New Brunswick sits in Canada

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Ranked within Canada

All 13 provinces and territories of Canada, matched to countries

Compare New Brunswick

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, 2021. Canada’s units share the 2021 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

Full method