Brazil: 27 provinces, states and territories
Every administrative level, from the 27 first-level units down to ADM2, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.
Brazil by province, state and territory
27 first-level units, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.
Every administrative level of Brazil
Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.
- ADM1
- 27 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic · each with its own page
- ADM2
- 5,570 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · each with its own page
All 27 first-level units
Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.
Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic
| Unit | Code | People (GHSL) | People (WorldPop) | Area km² | Per km² | Share | Coast ≤ 10 m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acre | BR-AC | 1,024,858 | 881,030 | 158,169 | 6 | 0.5% | 0 |
| Alagoas | BR-AL | 3,283,138 | 3,056,072 | 27,893 | 118 | 1.5% | 212,022 |
| Amapa | BR-AP | 950,735 | 760,809 | 141,458 | 7 | 0.4% | 282,723 |
| Amazonas | BR-AM | 4,690,262 | 4,256,256 | 1,583,511 | 3 | 2.2% | 355,763 |
| Bahia | BR-BA | 15,232,325 | 14,333,859 | 571,337 | 27 | 7.1% | 472,859 |
| Ceara | BR-CE | 6,958,483 | 6,820,491 | 148,762 | 47 | 3.3% | 108,135 |
| Distrito Federal | BR-DF | 3,508,516 | 2,997,322 | 5,353 | 655 | 1.6% | 0 |
| Espirito Santo | BR-ES | 4,233,258 | 3,948,780 | 47,583 | 89 | 2% | 591,963 |
| Goias | BR-GO | 7,801,240 | 7,580,055 | 341,352 | 23 | 3.6% | 0 |
| Maranhao | BR-MA | 6,723,647 | 6,128,506 | 330,221 | 20 | 3.1% | 565,695 |
| Mato Grosso | BR-MT | 3,728,865 | 3,917,861 | 909,630 | 4 | 1.7% | 0 |
| Mato Grosso do Sul | BR-MS | 3,185,557 | 3,121,422 | 358,469 | 9 | 1.5% | 0 |
| Minas Gerais | BR-MG | 22,174,057 | 21,577,186 | 592,313 | 37 | 10.4% | 0 |
| Para | BR-PA | 9,294,936 | 8,324,461 | 1,240,913 | 7 | 4.3% | 1,265,341 |
| Paraiba | BR-PB | 4,287,342 | 4,240,222 | 57,513 | 75 | 2% | 246,925 |
| Parana | BR-PR | 11,626,627 | 12,239,371 | 199,287 | 58 | 5.4% | 121,484 |
| Pernambuco | BR-PE | 10,242,749 | 9,466,297 | 99,770 | 103 | 4.8% | 1,199,109 |
| Piaui | BR-PI | 3,583,321 | 3,492,994 | 252,827 | 14 | 1.7% | 71,635 |
| Rio de Jeneiro | BR-RJ | 17,620,667 | 16,223,232 | 45,827 | 385 | 8.2% | 2,523,313 |
| Rio Granda do Norte | BR-RN | 3,680,257 | 3,339,938 | 53,030 | 69 | 1.7% | 322,916 |
| Rio Grande do Sul | BR-RS | 11,231,619 | 11,023,678 | 278,609 | 40 | 5.3% | 1,322,488 |
| Rondonia | BR-RO | 1,760,443 | 1,588,347 | 241,374 | 7 | 0.8% | 0 |
| Roraima | BR-RR | 625,283 | 704,359 | 223,549 | 3 | 0.3% | 0 |
| Santa Catarina | BR-SC | 6,594,069 | 7,031,182 | 94,847 | 70 | 3.1% | 739,136 |
| Sao Paulo | BR-SP | 45,718,378 | 46,459,565 | 250,349 | 183 | 21.4% | 947,379 |
| Sergipe | BR-SE | 2,212,485 | 2,085,037 | 22,947 | 96 | 1% | 759,887 |
| Tocantins | BR-TO | 1,761,755 | 1,588,407 | 279,248 | 6 | 0.8% | 0 |
Subnational risk products
Sources, credits and licences
- ADM1 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BRA ADM1, source: geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic · source · represents 2006
- ADM2 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BRA ADM2, source: Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), OCHA ROLAC, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
- Basemap
- OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
- Terrain
- Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
- People
- GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
- Lande
- Natural Earth (public domain).
- Elevation
- GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
- Position
- Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.
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