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NXS-GRX-BRA · South America · Regions

Maranhao

First-level unit, Brazil: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Map All 27 first-level units
Page GRX-BRA-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO BRA / BRStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
6,723,647
people (GHSL 2025)
330,221 km²
area
3.1%
of Brazil
219
units inside

01মানচিত্র

Inside Maranhao

The 219 ADM2 units of Maranhao.

FIG 1 · 219 units inside Maranhao
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

মানুষ · GHSL 2025

6,723,647

3.1% of Brazil.

মানুষ · WorldPop 2025

6,128,506

-9% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

330,221 km²

20 people per km².

Code

BR-MA

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

নিম্ন উপকূলীয় অঞ্চল

565,695

people on land at or below 10 m, 8.4% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Maranhao in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Population · 2022-12-31

6,776,699

people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Poverty headcount · 2015-12-31

14%

of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).

04Units

219 units inside Maranhao

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Açailândia – 123,103 110,583 5,836.55 21 1.6% 0
Afonso Cunha – 2,036 1,563 373.52 5 0% 0
Água Doce do Maranhão – 15,843 14,689 444.01 36 0.2% 4,788
Alcântara – 23,698 17,193 1,173.81 20 0.3% 2,662
Aldeias Altas – 29,277 23,243 1,948.83 15 0.4% 0
Altamira do Maranhão – 9,608 6,692 526.44 18 0.1% 0
Alto Alegre do Maranhão – 30,444 23,944 384.81 79 0.4% 0
Alto Alegre do Pindaré – 33,074 22,077 1,884.52 18 0.4% 0
Alto Parnaíba – 4,045 4,584 11,179.28 0 0.1% 0
Amapá do Maranhão – 7,552 7,689 504.56 15 0.1% 0
Amarante do Maranhão – 59,611 47,384 7,470.08 8 0.8% 0
Anajatuba – 29,762 27,448 946.24 31 0.4% 19,523
Anapurus – 8,384 6,202 610.5 14 0.1% 0
Apicum-Açu – 16,174 17,025 340.94 47 0.2% 6,961
Araguanã – 13,747 7,678 809.08 17 0.2% 0
Araioses – 48,708 37,025 1,794.38 27 0.7% 21,112
Arame – 22,075 14,553 2,987.23 7 0.3% 0
Arari – 34,060 32,109 1,105.64 31 0.5% 27,792
Axixá – 23,404 20,200 160.11 146 0.3% 2,903
Bacabal – 115,304 109,096 1,691.21 68 1.5% 925
Bacabeira – 23,287 23,886 543.85 43 0.3% 5,956
Bacuri – 22,147 18,135 882.45 25 0.3% 2,450
Bacurituba – 5,678 5,381 414.02 14 0.1% 4,677
Balsas – 104,015 109,535 13,198.89 8 1.4% 0
Barão de Grajaú – 11,152 9,941 2,220.63 5 0.1% 0
Barra do Corda – 93,449 88,166 5,214.81 18 1.2% 0
Barreirinhas – 69,433 72,275 3,060.29 23 0.9% 19,395
Bela Vista do Maranhão – 11,891 12,629 147.94 80 0.2% 0
Belágua – 7,998 9,279 572.57 14 0.1% 0
Benedito Leite – 19,806 20,555 1,790.05 11 0.3% 0
Bequimão – 24,157 19,025 793.32 30 0.3% 10,095
Bernardo do Mearim – 6,728 5,966 248.58 27 0.1% 0
Boa Vista do Gurupi – 3,500 2,670 405.04 9 0% 9
Bom Jardim – 55,633 39,046 6,617.17 8 0.7% 564
Bom Jesus das Selvas – 36,657 28,682 2,687.82 14 0.5% 0
Bom Lugar – 16,597 11,357 446.15 37 0.2% 15
Brejo – 48,081 43,823 1,076.9 45 0.6% 0
Brejo de Areia – 10,749 8,134 989.65 11 0.1% 0
Buriti – 30,540 30,717 1,481.42 21 0.4% 0
Buriti Bravo – 27,846 22,743 1,589.02 18 0.4% 0
Buriticupu – 80,216 52,084 2,556.63 31 1.1% 0
Buritirana – 17,066 12,117 822.92 21 0.2% 0
Cachoeira Grande – 8,822 7,809 869.19 10 0.1% 200
Cajapió – 12,595 10,116 546.06 23 0.2% 8,783
Cajari – 19,087 13,280 667.4 29 0.3% 13,278
Campestre do Maranhão – 15,821 12,018 616.66 26 0.2% 0
Cândido Mendes – 21,081 20,066 1,641.84 13 0.3% 6,820
Cantanhede – 22,317 24,501 777.63 29 0.3% 0
Capinzal do Norte – 11,686 12,039 591.19 20 0.2% 0
Carolina – 30,343 27,199 6,468.77 5 0.4% 0
Carutapera – 38,510 34,959 1,266.51 30 0.5% 6,960
Caxias – 199,619 187,669 5,219.18 38 2.7% 0
Cedral – 6,965 6,232 282.62 25 0.1% 314
Central do Maranhão – 9,474 7,727 320.34 30 0.1% 738
Centro do Guilherme – 11,225 9,434 1,172.8 10 0.1% 0
Centro Novo do Maranhão – 24,959 15,257 8,439.25 3 0.3% 0
Chapadinha – 90,856 90,971 3,264.05 28 1.2% 0
Cidelândia – 15,820 12,527 1,468.67 11 0.2% 0
Codó – 133,973 111,873 4,382.76 31 1.8% 0
Coelho Neto – 57,647 41,920 979.89 59 0.8% 0
Colinas – 47,017 42,158 1,990.06 24 0.6% 0
Conceição do Lago-Açu – 18,468 15,454 738.6 25 0.2% 9,882
Coroatá – 69,603 58,685 2,272.91 31 0.9% 0
Cururupu – 34,294 30,126 1,260.86 27 0.5% 7,954
Davinópolis – 10,194 16,420 335.77 30 0.1% 0
Dom Pedro – 27,688 24,934 360.92 77 0.4% 0
Duque Bacelar – 7,647 6,126 319.29 24 0.1% 0
Esperantinópolis – 20,309 18,656 453.55 45 0.3% 0
Estreito – 37,935 28,607 2,730.48 14 0.5% 0
Feira Nova do Maranhão – 9,009 8,484 1,479.99 6 0.1% 0
Fernando Falcão – 12,024 11,068 5,109.19 2 0.2% 0
Formosa da Serra Negra – 20,212 17,702 3,709.26 5 0.3% 0
Fortaleza dos Nogueiras – 14,060 13,616 1,864.14 8 0.2% 0
Fortuna – 15,292 15,270 697.41 22 0.2% 0
Godofredo Viana – 13,403 10,343 722.8 19 0.2% 2,682
Gonçalves Dias – 17,762 16,514 889.43 20 0.2% 0
Governador Archer – 11,380 10,203 447.01 25 0.2% 0
Governador Edison Lobão – 18,473 18,546 619.66 30 0.2% 0
Governador Eugênio Barros – 17,953 15,416 820.4 22 0.2% 0
Governador Luiz Rocha – 9,268 7,431 374.42 25 0.1% 0
Governador Newton Bello – 15,264 12,603 1,149.82 13 0.2% 0
Governador Nunes Freire – 27,828 22,226 1,041.83 27 0.4% 0
Graça Aranha – 7,047 6,443 272.91 26 0.1% 0
Grajaú – 76,973 78,472 8,901.97 9 1% 0
Guimarães – 11,947 9,106 481.58 25 0.2% 1,372
Humberto de Campos – 31,402 25,622 1,721.99 18 0.4% 9,019
Icatu – 20,076 17,958 1,129.03 18 0.3% 1,850
Igarapé do Meio – 15,271 15,551 369.78 41 0.2% 5
Igarapé Grande – 12,328 9,909 346.21 36 0.2% 0
Ilha Grande – 11,287 10,259 133.92 84 0.2% 10,062
Imperatriz – 278,501 301,692 1,376.43 202 3.7% 0
Itaipava do Grajaú – 15,259 13,330 1,245.04 12 0.2% 0
Itapecuru Mirim – 77,750 60,690 1,485.77 52 1% 348
Itinga do Maranhão – 24,183 20,060 3,596.66 7 0.3% 0
Jatobá – 8,695 6,459 593.15 15 0.1% 0
Jenipapo dos Vieiras – 19,432 17,305 1,971.01 10 0.3% 0
João Lisboa – 9,455 9,491 1,139.54 8 0.1% 0
Joca Marques – 4,002 4,016 167.03 24 0.1% 0
Joselândia – 16,261 14,123 706.03 23 0.2% 0
Junco do Maranhão – 3,608 4,232 567.02 6 0% 0
Lago da Pedra – 54,280 44,626 1,247.35 44 0.7% 0
Lago do Junco – 10,580 8,670 329.7 32 0.1% 0
Lago dos Rodrigues – 10,750 9,763 221.53 49 0.1% 0
Lago Verde – 18,871 15,126 624.23 30 0.3% 614
Lagoa do Mato – 12,815 10,626 1,519.26 8 0.2% 0
Lagoa Grande do Maranhão – 14,282 12,898 746.25 19 0.2% 0
Lajeado Novo – 7,721 6,889 1,070.5 7 0.1% 0
Lima Campos – 13,494 11,732 321.08 42 0.2% 0
Loreto – 13,286 12,087 3,613.2 4 0.2% 0
Luís Domingues – 5,367 6,028 473.21 11 0.1% 1,006
Magalhães de Almeida – 18,503 11,091 434.22 43 0.2% 996
Maracaçumé – 23,477 22,210 638.44 37 0.3% 0
Marajá do Sena – 9,687 6,519 1,409.25 7 0.1% 0
Maranhãozinho – 22,654 17,684 764.73 30 0.3% 0
Mata Roma – 26,557 26,021 550.48 48 0.4% 0
Matinha – 24,428 21,799 412.07 59 0.3% 5,819
Matões – 37,341 33,553 2,117.91 18 0.5% 0
Matões do Norte – 18,216 18,390 797.51 23 0.2% 34
Milagres do Maranhão – 12,461 10,782 639.57 19 0.2% 0
Mirador – 23,565 22,205 8,557.45 3 0.3% 0
Miranda do Norte – 31,142 22,731 343.05 91 0.4% 0
Mirinzal – 17,760 15,156 690.58 26 0.2% 1,542
Monção – 36,927 26,952 1,250.01 30 0.5% 14,143
Montes Altos – 10,464 9,188 1,493.83 7 0.1% 0
Morros – 22,103 19,887 1,720.28 13 0.3% 236
Nina Rodrigues – 15,492 14,510 545.35 28 0.2% 0
Nova Colinas – 5,755 5,029 744.77 8 0.1% 0
Nova Iorque – 5,500 4,819 982.65 6 0.1% 0
Nova Olinda do Maranhão – 24,009 13,380 2,464.61 10 0.3% 0
Olho d’Água das Cunhãs – 22,053 17,606 697.91 32 0.3% 312
Olinda Nova do Maranhão – 16,234 13,381 201.1 81 0.2% 2,723
Paço do Lumiar – 190,402 259,881 127.6 1,492 2.5% 12,783
Palmeirândia – 18,566 18,463 534.29 35 0.2% 3,003
Paraibano – 23,015 16,910 533.07 43 0.3% 0
Parnarama – 31,128 23,350 3,255.03 10 0.4% 0
Passagem Franca – 20,618 17,146 1,363.73 15 0.3% 0
Pastos Bons – 27,740 25,369 1,642.01 17 0.4% 0
Paulino Neves – 16,485 17,071 983.71 17 0.2% 8,604
Paulo Ramos – 22,608 20,945 1,174.09 19 0.3% 0
Pedreiras – 26,520 24,452 262.06 101 0.4% 0
Pedro do Rosário – 28,701 26,061 1,765.12 16 0.4% 0
Penalva – 42,050 31,801 802.88 52 0.6% 12,511
Peri Mirim – 17,223 13,285 400.91 43 0.2% 5,002
Peritoró – 25,186 19,904 828.79 30 0.3% 0
Pindaré-Mirim – 42,761 38,717 269.32 159 0.6% 15,637
Pinheiro – 87,701 87,099 1,520.08 58 1.2% 53,290
Pio XII – 23,157 22,869 547.59 42 0.3% 89
Pirapemas – 21,306 19,204 693.11 31 0.3% 0
Poção de Pedras – 21,555 16,443 995.17 22 0.3% 0
Porto Franco – 22,001 21,883 1,422.92 15 0.3% 0
Porto Rico do Maranhão – 6,788 6,353 250.03 27 0.1% 1,592
Presidente Dutra – 52,538 46,919 773.36 68 0.7% 0
Presidente Juscelino – 16,134 14,851 357.53 45 0.2% 1,932
Presidente Médici – 7,428 4,344 439.18 17 0.1% 0
Presidente Sarney – 22,405 19,116 729.27 31 0.3% 790
Presidente Vargas – 13,573 11,100 330.44 41 0.2% 0
Primeira Cruz – 17,749 14,400 1,338.59 13 0.2% 6,956
Raposa – 20,679 20,535 79.73 259 0.3% 11,044
Riachão – 22,971 23,696 6,398.84 4 0.3% 0
Ribamar Fiquene – 8,871 7,887 737 12 0.1% 0
Rosário – 45,190 36,214 651.25 69 0.6% 9,482
Sambaíba – 6,439 5,935 2,490.45 3 0.1% 0
Santa Filomena do Maranhão – 9,695 7,492 626.67 15 0.1% 0
Santa Helena – 30,948 31,967 2,200.18 14 0.4% 6,385
Santa Inês – 93,559 81,516 790.63 118 1.2% 0
Santa Luzia – 77,742 53,208 4,857.72 16 1% 0
Santa Luzia do Paruá – 29,697 25,983 1,015.6 29 0.4% 5
Santa Quitéria do Maranhão – 28,923 25,349 1,442.46 20 0.4% 0
Santa Rita – 37,982 36,635 760.49 50 0.5% 5,992
Santana do Maranhão – 13,999 10,251 934.34 15 0.2% 0
Santo Amaro do Maranhão – 15,751 12,746 1,591.85 10 0.2% 6,912
Santo Antônio dos Lopes – 18,074 16,827 776.8 23 0.2% 0
São Benedito do Rio Preto – 20,051 19,044 935.22 21 0.3% 0
São Bento – 49,253 49,155 459.48 107 0.7% 31,496
São Bernardo – 34,899 31,125 1,011.18 35 0.5% 86
São Domingos do Azeitão – 8,252 8,586 966.64 9 0.1% 0
São Domingos do Maranhão – 38,894 35,927 1,158.26 34 0.5% 0
São Félix de Balsas – 5,058 4,183 2,037.6 2 0.1% 0
São Francisco do Brejão – 12,114 8,483 747.5 16 0.2% 0
São Francisco do Maranhão – 16,119 15,600 2,289.87 7 0.2% 0
São João Batista – 21,461 16,868 653.34 33 0.3% 13,869
São João do Carú – 10,879 6,112 914.57 12 0.1% 0
São João do Paraíso – 12,258 9,368 2,064.28 6 0.2% 0
São João do Soter – 21,799 18,058 1,444.8 15 0.3% 0
São João dos Patos – 29,157 26,041 1,484.32 20 0.4% 0
São José de Ribamar – 185,361 219,101 181.11 1,023 2.5% 1,261
São José dos Basílios – 8,774 6,195 354.7 25 0.1% 0
São Luís – 904,313 852,893 585.33 1,545 12.1% 157,466
São Luís Gonzaga do Maranhão – 19,985 16,296 914.8 22 0.3% 0
São Mateus do Maranhão – 45,975 40,086 786.71 58 0.6% 290
São Pedro da Água Branca – 1,720 3,304 724.78 2 0% 0
São Pedro dos Crentes – 5,022 5,984 983.47 5 0.1% 0
São Raimundo das Mangabeiras – 21,087 19,850 3,534.88 6 0.3% 0
São Raimundo do Doca Bezerra – 7,643 5,876 422.02 18 0.1% 0
São Roberto – 7,101 4,078 225.77 31 0.1% 0
São Vicente Ferrer – 25,931 21,536 393.73 66 0.3% 7,242
Satubinha – 13,689 8,098 443.13 31 0.2% 0
Senador Alexandre Costa – 10,236 9,035 428.01 24 0.1% 0
Senador La Rocque – 28,478 27,229 742.12 38 0.4% 0
Serrano do Maranhão – 12,419 9,904 1,171.32 11 0.2% 2,310
Sítio Novo – 20,453 18,518 3,127.59 7 0.3% 0
Sucupira do Norte – 6,531 4,699 1,080.2 6 0.1% 0
Sucupira do Riachão – 6,198 5,361 867.65 7 0.1% 0
Tasso Fragoso – 4,939 5,380 4,400.46 1 0.1% 0
Timbiras – 31,740 26,045 1,492.53 21 0.4% 0
Timon – 182,363 192,038 1,771.2 103 2.4% 0
Trizidela do Vale – 38,301 34,943 295.11 130 0.5% 0
Tufilândia – 5,870 5,119 273.35 21 0.1% 17
Tuntum – 46,578 36,024 3,382.48 14 0.6% 0
Turiaçu – 41,836 42,612 2,605.21 16 0.6% 12,110
Turilândia – 41,628 43,370 1,514.24 27 0.6% 27,336
Tutóia – 64,801 54,088 1,577.11 41 0.9% 19,684
Urbano Santos – 37,027 35,765 1,713.36 22 0.5% 0
Vargem Grande – 61,957 41,706 1,966.36 32 0.8% 0
Viana – 59,316 54,715 1,171.61 51 0.8% 31,139
Vila Nova dos Martírios – 15,190 10,015 1,194.2 13 0.2% 0
Vitória do Mearim – 37,490 32,860 720.35 52 0.5% 19,933
Vitorino Freire – 36,043 31,965 1,200.82 30 0.5% 0
Zé Doca – 54,111 37,404 2,148.06 25 0.7% 0
05Exposure

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
180.1 H3 cells
বন্দর
None at this resolution
বিমানবন্দর
1 H3 cells
Major roads
5,929.4 H3 cells
রেলপথ
911.4 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
2,198.4 H3 cells
06ঝুঁকি

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Maranhao publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Brazil.
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07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

08উৎস

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.
দেশ
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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