State of the United States

Maine

Maine is a state of the United States. It covers about 84,300 km² (32,500 mi²), the 39th largest of the 51 states and districts in Natural Earth’s file for the United States, and about the same size as Austria. About 1.4 million people live there (Wikidata, 2020).

In area1.00×the size ofAustria84,000 km² In people1.00×as many people asTrinidad and Tobago1.4 million

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Maine
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Facts

Area, measured	84,300 km²32,500 mi²
Official area	91,600 km²Wikidata · 8.1% above our measure
Share of the United States	0.9%of the area of the 51 states and districts
Rank by area	39th of 51states and districts of the United States
Population	1.4 millionWikidata, 2020 · the census year of every unit
Density	16 people per km²
Capital	Augusta
Latitude range	43°N to 47°N
Type	StateUS-ME

What the numbers say about Maine

Maine covers 0.9% of the area of the United States and ranks 42nd of 51 by population, against 39th by area.
It would take 112 states and districts the size of Maine to cover the United States.
Maine holds 0.4% of the 331.4 million people that Wikidata’s 2020 figures give for the 51 states and districts together: about 1 in 243.
The largest, Alaska, is 17.9× the size of Maine; the smallest, Washington, D.C., is 0.2% of it.
Closest in size within the United States: South Carolina (80,200 km², 1.05×) and Indiana (94,300 km², 1.12×).
Counted as a country, Maine would be larger than 125 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 115th by area, between Azerbaijan (86,200 km²) and Austria (84,000 km²).
With 1.4 million people it would rank 158th of 238 by population.
Maine has 16 people per km², about the density of Oman, which has 16 per km².
That makes Maine the 40th most densely populated of the 51 states and districts, 46% of the average for the United States (35 per km²).
On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 45°N is drawn about 2.0× too large in area, so Maine looks bigger there than it is.
Laid out flat, Maine stretches about 485 km north to south and 323 km east to west.
Our measured 84,300 km² is 8.1% below Wikidata's official figure of 91,600 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.

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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 Maine ranks

Maine is the 39th 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 Maine

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