NXS-GRX-BRA · South America · Regions

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.

Page GRX-BRA-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO BRA / BRStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
27
first-level units
5,597
units at 2 levels
213,734,872
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief
01Map

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.

FIG 1 · 27 first-level units of Brazil
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1Risk 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.
02Levels

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
03Units

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

UnitCodePeople (GHSL)People (WorldPop)Area km²Per km²ShareCoast ≤ 10 m
AcreBR-AC1,024,858881,030158,16960.5%0
AlagoasBR-AL3,283,1383,056,07227,8931181.5%212,022
AmapaBR-AP950,735760,809141,45870.4%282,723
AmazonasBR-AM4,690,2624,256,2561,583,51132.2%355,763
BahiaBR-BA15,232,32514,333,859571,337277.1%472,859
CearaBR-CE6,958,4836,820,491148,762473.3%108,135
Distrito FederalBR-DF3,508,5162,997,3225,3536551.6%0
Espirito SantoBR-ES4,233,2583,948,78047,583892%591,963
GoiasBR-GO7,801,2407,580,055341,352233.6%0
MaranhaoBR-MA6,723,6476,128,506330,221203.1%565,695
Mato GrossoBR-MT3,728,8653,917,861909,63041.7%0
Mato Grosso do SulBR-MS3,185,5573,121,422358,46991.5%0
Minas GeraisBR-MG22,174,05721,577,186592,3133710.4%0
ParaBR-PA9,294,9368,324,4611,240,91374.3%1,265,341
ParaibaBR-PB4,287,3424,240,22257,513752%246,925
ParanaBR-PR11,626,62712,239,371199,287585.4%121,484
PernambucoBR-PE10,242,7499,466,29799,7701034.8%1,199,109
PiauiBR-PI3,583,3213,492,994252,827141.7%71,635
Rio de JeneiroBR-RJ17,620,66716,223,23245,8273858.2%2,523,313
Rio Granda do NorteBR-RN3,680,2573,339,93853,030691.7%322,916
Rio Grande do SulBR-RS11,231,61911,023,678278,609405.3%1,322,488
RondoniaBR-RO1,760,4431,588,347241,37470.8%0
RoraimaBR-RR625,283704,359223,54930.3%0
Santa CatarinaBR-SC6,594,0697,031,18294,847703.1%739,136
Sao PauloBR-SP45,718,37846,459,565250,34918321.4%947,379
SergipeBR-SE2,212,4852,085,03722,947961%759,887
TocantinsBR-TO1,761,7551,588,407279,24860.8%0
04Risk

Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Brazil publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
05Sources

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.
Countries
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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