State of the United States

Alabama

Alabama is a state of the United States. It covers about 134,000 km² (51,700 mi²), the 29th largest of the 51 states and districts in Natural Earth’s file for the United States, and about the same size as Greece. About 5.0 million people live there (Wikidata, 2020).

In area1.02×the size ofGreece131,000 km² In people0.98×as many people asNicaragua5.1 million

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Facts

Area, measured	134,000 km²51,700 mi²
Official area	136,000 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure
Share of the United States	1.4%of the area of the 51 states and districts
Rank by area	29th of 51states and districts of the United States
Population	5.0 millionWikidata, 2020 · the census year of every unit
Density	38 people per km²
Capital	Montgomery
Latitude range	30°N to 35°N
Type	StateUS-AL

What the numbers say about Alabama

Alabama covers 1.4% of the area of the United States and ranks 24th of 51 by population, against 29th by area.
It would take 70.7 states and districts the size of Alabama to cover the United States.
Alabama holds 1.5% of the 331.4 million people that Wikidata’s 2020 figures give for the 51 states and districts together: about 1 in 66.
The largest, Alaska, is 11.2× the size of Alabama; the smallest, Washington, D.C., is 0.1% of it.
Closest in size within the United States: New York (137,000 km², 1.02×) and Arkansas (138,000 km², 1.03×).
Counted as a country, Alabama would be larger than 143 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 97th by area, between Bangladesh (137,000 km²) and Greece (131,000 km²).
With 5.0 million people it would rank 125th of 238 by population.
Alabama has 38 people per km², about the density of Mozambique, which has 38 per km².
That makes Alabama the 27th most densely populated of the 51 states and districts, 1.07× the average for the United States (35 per km²).
On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 33°N is drawn about 1.4× too large in area, so Alabama looks bigger there than it is.
Laid out flat, Alabama stretches about 532 km north to south and 338 km east to west.
Wikidata's official figure of 136,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 134,000 km², to within 2%.

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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.

Where Alabama ranks

Alabama is the 29th largest of the 51 states and districts of the United States.

Ranked within the United States

All 51 states and districts of the United States, matched to countries

Compare Alabama

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, 2020. United States’s units share the 2020 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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