State of the United States

Indiana

Indiana is a state of the United States. It covers about 94,300 km² (36,400 mi²), the 38th largest of the 51 states and districts in Natural Earth’s file for the United States, and about the same size as Liberia. About 6.8 million people live there (Wikidata, 2020).

In area0.99×the size ofLiberia95,300 km² In people1.00×as many people asParaguay6.8 million

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Facts

Area, measured	94,300 km²36,400 mi²
Official area	94,300 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure
Share of the United States	1.0%of the area of the 51 states and districts
Rank by area	38th of 51states and districts of the United States
Population	6.8 millionWikidata, 2020 · the census year of every unit
Density	72 people per km²
Capital	Indianapolis
Latitude range	38°N to 42°N
Type	StateUS-IN

What the numbers say about Indiana

Indiana covers 1.0% of the area of the United States and ranks 17th of 51 by population, against 38th by area.
It would take 100 states and districts the size of Indiana to cover the United States.
Indiana holds 2.0% of the 331.4 million people that Wikidata’s 2020 figures give for the 51 states and districts together: about 1 in 49.
The largest, Alaska, is 16.0× the size of Indiana; the smallest, Washington, D.C., is 0.2% of it.
Closest in size within the United States: Virginia (104,000 km², 1.10×) and Kentucky (105,000 km², 1.11×).
Counted as a country, Indiana would be larger than 130 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 110th by area, between Liberia (95,300 km²) and Hungary (93,200 km²).
With 6.8 million people it would rank 108th of 238 by population.
Indiana has 72 people per km², about the density of Samoa, which has 72 per km².
That makes Indiana the 17th most densely populated of the 51 states and districts, 2.05× the average for the United States (35 per km²).
On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 40°N is drawn about 1.7× too large in area, so Indiana looks bigger there than it is.
Laid out flat, Indiana stretches about 442 km north to south and 290 km east to west.
Wikidata's official figure of 94,300 km² agrees with our measured area of 94,300 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 Indiana ranks

Indiana is the 38th 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 Indiana

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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