State of Mexico
Oaxaca
Oaxaca is a state of Mexico. It covers about 92,200 km² (35,600 mi²), the 5th largest of the 32 states in Natural Earth’s file for Mexico, and about the same size as Portugal. About 4.0 million people live there (Wikidata, 2015).
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- Oaxaca
- Portugal
Facts
| Area, measured | 92,200 km²35,600 mi² |
|---|---|
| Official area | 93,800 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure |
| Share of Mexico | 4.7%of the area of the 32 states |
| Rank by area | 5th of 32states of Mexico |
| Population | 4.0 millionWikidata, 2015 |
| Density | 43 people per km² |
| Capital | Oaxaca de Juárez |
| Latitude range | 16°N to 19°N |
| Type | StateMX-OAX |
What the numbers say about Oaxaca
- Oaxaca covers 4.7% of the area of Mexico and ranks 10th of 32 by population, against 5th by area.
- It would take 21.2 states the size of Oaxaca to cover Mexico.
- The largest, Chihuahua, is 2.69× the size of Oaxaca; the smallest, Mexico City, is 1.5% of it.
- Closest in size within Mexico: Jalisco (80,000 km², 1.15×) and Tamaulipas (79,600 km², 1.16×).
- Counted as a country, Oaxaca would be larger than 129 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 111th by area, between Hungary (93,200 km²) and Portugal (91,400 km²).
- With 4.0 million people it would rank 130th of 238 by population.
- Oaxaca has 43 people per km², about the density of Belarus, which has 44 per km².
- That makes Oaxaca the 23rd most densely populated of the 32 states, 70% of the average for Mexico (61 per km²).
- Oaxaca lies at 17°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, Oaxaca stretches about 335 km north to south and 499 km east to west.
- Wikidata's official figure of 93,800 km² agrees with our measured area of 92,200 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.
- ChinaAreaJiangsu0.92× · 100,000 km²PeopleTibet1.09× · 3.6 million (2020)
- United StatesAreaIndiana0.98× · 94,300 km²PeopleOklahoma1.00× · 4.0 million (2020)
- IndiaAreaBihar0.97× · 94,700 km²PeopleTripura1.08× · 3.7 million (2011)
- GermanyAreaBavaria1.32× · 70,000 km²PeopleSaxony0.97× · 4.1 million (2022)
- FranceAreaNouvelle-Aquitaine1.08× · 85,000 km²PeoplePays de la Loire1.02× · 3.9 million (2022)
- ItalyAreanone within 2×PeopleApulia0.98× · 4.0 million (2019)
- SpainAreaCastile and León0.97× · 94,800 km²PeopleValencian Community75% · 5.3 million (2024)
- JapanAreaHokkaido (Japan)1.17× · 78,800 km²PeopleShizuoka1.10× · 3.6 million (2021)
- BrazilAreaSanta Catarina0.97× · 95,100 km²PeopleParaíba1.00× · 4.0 million (2022)
- CanadaAreaNew Brunswick1.27× · 72,800 km²PeopleAlberta0.93× · 4.3 million (2021)
- AustraliaAreaTasmania (Australia)1.35× · 68,100 km²PeopleWestern Australia1.32× · 3.0 million (2024)
- ThailandAreanone within 2×PeopleBangkok70% · 5.7 million (2018)
Where Oaxaca sits in Mexico
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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