State of the United States

Georgia (United States)

Georgia (United States) is a state of the United States. It covers about 152,000 km² (58,800 mi²), the 23rd largest of the 51 states and districts in Natural Earth’s file for the United States, and about the same size as Tunisia. About 10.7 million people live there (Wikidata, 2020).

In area0.97×the size ofTunisia157,000 km² In people1.00×as many people asDominican Republic10.8 million

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Georgia (United States)

Facts

Area, measured	152,000 km²58,800 mi²
Official area	154,000 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure
Share of the United States	1.6%of the area of the 51 states and districts
Rank by area	23rd of 51states and districts of the United States
Population	10.7 millionWikidata, 2020 · the census year of every unit
Density	70 people per km²
Capital	Atlanta
Latitude range	30°N to 35°N
Type	StateUS-GA

What the numbers say about Georgia (United States)

Georgia (United States) covers 1.6% of the area of the United States and ranks 8th of 51 by population, against 23rd by area.
It would take 62.2 states and districts the size of Georgia (United States) to cover the United States.
Georgia (United States) holds 3.2% of the 331.4 million people that Wikidata’s 2020 figures give for the 51 states and districts together: about 1 in 31.
The largest, Alaska, is 9.89× the size of Georgia (United States); the smallest, Washington, D.C., is 0.1% of it.
Closest in size within the United States: Illinois (150,000 km², 1.01×) and Florida (147,000 km², 1.04×).
Counted as a country, Georgia (United States) would be larger than 147 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 93rd by area, between Tunisia (157,000 km²) and Nepal (147,000 km²).
With 10.7 million people it would rank 87th of 238 by population.
Georgia (United States) has 70 people per km², about the density of Croatia, which has 70 per km².
That makes Georgia (United States) the 18th most densely populated of the 51 states and districts, 2.01× 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 Georgia (United States) looks bigger there than it is.
Laid out flat, Georgia (United States) stretches about 514 km north to south and 443 km east to west.
Wikidata's official figure of 154,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 152,000 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.

ChinaAreaShandong0.98× · 156,000 km² PeopleHainan1.06× · 10.1 million (2020)
IndiaAreaOdisha0.98× · 155,000 km² PeopleUttarakhand1.06× · 10.1 million (2011)
GermanyAreanone within 2×PeopleBaden-Württemberg0.96× · 11.1 million (2022)
FranceAreaNouvelle-Aquitaine1.79× · 85,000 km² PeopleÎle-de-France87% · 12.4 million (2022)
ItalyAreanone within 2×PeopleLombardy1.06× · 10.1 million (2019)
SpainAreaCastile and León1.61× · 94,800 km² PeopleAndalusia1.24× · 8.6 million (2024)
JapanAreaHokkaido (Japan)1.93× · 78,800 km² PeopleKanagawa1.16× · 9.2 million (2020)
BrazilAreaAcre0.99× · 154,000 km² PeopleRio Grande do Sul0.98× · 10.9 million (2022)
CanadaAreanone within 2×PeopleQuebec1.26× · 8.5 million (2021)
AustraliaAreaVictoria67% · 228,000 km² PeopleNew South Wales1.25× · 8.5 million (2024)
MexicoAreaCoahuila1.01× · 151,000 km² PeopleMexico City1.20× · 8.9 million (2015)
ThailandAreanone within 2×PeopleBangkok1.89× · 5.7 million (2018)

Where Georgia (United States) ranks

Georgia (United States) is the 23rd 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 Georgia (United States)

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

Full method