State of Mexico
Guerrero
Guerrero is a state of Mexico. It covers about 64,700 km² (25,000 mi²), the 14th largest of the 32 states in Natural Earth’s file for Mexico, and about the same size as Latvia. About 3.5 million people live there (Wikidata, 2015).
100 km
- Guerrero
- Latvia
Facts
| Area, measured | 64,700 km²25,000 mi² |
|---|---|
| Official area | 63,600 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure |
| Share of Mexico | 3.3%of the area of the 32 states |
| Rank by area | 14th of 32states of Mexico |
| Population | 3.5 millionWikidata, 2015 |
| Density | 55 people per km² |
| Capital | Chilpancingo de los Bravo |
| Latitude range | 16°N to 19°N |
| Type | StateMX-GRO |
What the numbers say about Guerrero
- Guerrero covers 3.3% of the area of Mexico and ranks 12th of 32 by population, against 14th by area.
- It would take 30.3 states the size of Guerrero to cover Mexico.
- The largest, Chihuahua, is 3.83× the size of Guerrero; the smallest, Mexico City, is 2.1% of it.
- Closest in size within Mexico: Nuevo León (65,000 km², 1.00×) and San Luis Potosí (64,200 km², 1.01×).
- Counted as a country, Guerrero would be larger than 115 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 125th by area, between Lithuania (64,900 km²) and Latvia (64,600 km²).
- With 3.5 million people it would rank 133rd of 238 by population.
- Guerrero has 55 people per km², about the density of Liberia, which has 55 per km².
- That makes Guerrero the 18th most densely populated of the 32 states, 89% of the average for Mexico (61 per km²).
- Guerrero lies at 18°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.1×.
- Laid out flat, Guerrero stretches about 284 km north to south and 443 km east to west.
- Wikidata's official figure of 63,600 km² agrees with our measured area of 64,700 km², to within 2%.
About the same size 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.
- ChinaAreaNingxia1.24× · 52,100 km²PeopleTibet0.97× · 3.6 million (2020)
- United StatesAreaWest Virginia1.03× · 62,700 km²PeopleConnecticut0.98× · 3.6 million (2020)
- IndiaAreaLadakh1.01× · 64,300 km²PeopleTripura0.96× · 3.7 million (2011)
- GermanyAreaBavaria0.92× · 70,000 km²PeopleBerlin0.94× · 3.8 million (2022)
- FranceAreaAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes0.91× · 70,900 km²PeopleBrittany1.03× · 3.4 million (2022)
- ItalyAreanone within 2×PeopleTuscany0.95× · 3.7 million (2019)
- SpainAreaCastilla–La Mancha81% · 79,400 km²PeopleGalicia1.31× · 2.7 million (2024)
- JapanAreaHokkaido (Japan)82% · 78,800 km²PeopleShizuoka0.98× · 3.6 million (2021)
- BrazilAreaParaíba1.14× · 56,500 km²PeopleMato Grosso0.97× · 3.7 million (2022)
- CanadaAreaNew Brunswick89% · 72,800 km²PeopleAlberta83% · 4.3 million (2021)
- AustraliaAreaTasmania (Australia)0.95× · 68,100 km²PeopleWestern Australia1.17× · 3.0 million (2024)
- ThailandAreanone within 2×PeopleNakhon Ratchasima1.34× · 2.6 million (2020)
Where Guerrero sits in Mexico
All 32 drawn on one equal-area map, so sizes are comparable. Select another to open it.
Compare Guerrero
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- Guerrero vs West Virginia
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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, 2015. Mexico’s units share the 2015 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