There are 26 States of Brazil, or Estados in Portuguese, which are the federal states of Brazil, plus the Federal District which holds the capital city, Brasília. Below are these states listed in order of the population, from São Paulo with the greatest population, to Roraima with the least. The second number in bold corresponds to the map. Brazil has a total population of 174,468,575, it is ranked 5th in the world. This and the figures below are based on 2006 estimate.

Brazilian states by population.

Rank	State	Population	Comparable country by population
1	São Paulo	41,055,734	Argentina
2	Minas Gerais	20.033.665	Romania
3	Rio de Janeiro	15,761,720	Burkina Faso
4	Bahia	13,950,146	Ecuador
5	Rio Grande do Sul	10,963,219	Belgium
6	Paraná	10,387,378	Tunisia
7	Pernambuco	8,502,603	Azerbaijan
8	Ceará	8,217,085	Burundi
9	Pará	7,110,465	Hong Kong
10	Maranhão	6,184,538	El Salvador
11	Santa Catarina	5,958,266	Nicaragua
12	Goiás	5,730,753	Sierra Leone
13	Paraíba	3,723,215	Palestine
14	Espírito Santo	3,464,285	Panama
15	Amazonas	3,311,026	Mauritania
16	Alagoas	3,050,652	Albania
17	Rio Grande do Norte	3,043,760	Kuwait
18	Piauí	3,036,290	Oman
19	Mato Grosso	2,856,999	Jamaica
A	Distrito Federal	2,383,784	Latvia
20	Mato Grosso do Sul	2,297,981	Namibia
21	Sergipe	2,000,738	Lesotho
22	Rondônia	1,562,417	Guinea-Bissau
23	Tocantins	1,332,441	Trinidad and Tobago
24	Acre	686,652	Comoros
25	Amapá	615,715	Montenegro
26	Roraima	403,344	Brunei

[edit] See also

• Brazil
• States of Brazil
• List of subnational entities
• List of Brazilian states by area

[edit] External links

• States of Brazil at statoids.com

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