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 density, from Distrito Federal with the greatest population density, to Roraima with the least. The second number in bold corresponds to the map.

Population density is a ratio of the average number of inhabitants per square kilometre. It is worked out by simply dividing the population by the area of the state. Brazil has an overall population density of 20.5 inhabitants per square kilometer . This and the figures below are based on 2000 census data.

Brazilian states by population density.

Rank	State	Area	Population	Density	Comparable country
A	Distrito Federal	5,801.9	2.383.784	410,9	Tuvalu
1	Rio de Janeiro	43,696.1	15.561.720	356,1	Comoros
2	São Paulo	248,209.4	41.055.734	165,4	Saint Kitts and Nevis
3	Alagoas	27,767.7	3.050.652	109,9	Albania
4	Sergipe	21,910.3	2.000.738	91,3	Romania
5	Pernambuco	98,311.6	8.502.603	86,5	Costa Rica
6	Espírito Santo	46,077.5	3.464.285	75,2	Benin
7	Paraíba	56,439.8	3.623.215	64,2	Honduras
8	Santa Catarina	95,346.2	5.958.266	62,5	Tunisia
9	Rio Grande do Norte	52,796.8	3.043.760	57,7	Kenya
10	Ceará	148,825.6	8.217.085	55,2	Mexico
11	Paraná	199,314.9	10.387.378	52,1	Lithuania
12	Rio Grande do Sul	281,748.5	10.963.219	38,9	Guinea
13	Minas Gerais	586,528.3	19.479.356	33,2	Nagorno-Karabakh
14	Bahia	564,692.7	13.950.146	24,7	Mozambique
15	Maranhão	331,983.3	6.184.538	18,6	Equatorial Guinea
16	Goiás	340,086.7	5.730.753	16,9	Solomon Islands
17	Piauí	251,529.2	3.036.290	12,1	Norway
18	Rondônia	237,576.2	1.562.417	6,6	Central African Republic
19	Mato Grosso do Sul	357,125	2.297.981	6,4	Central African Republic
20	Pará	1,247,689.5	7.110.465	5,7	Kazakhstan
21	Tocantins	277,620.9	1.332.441	4,8	Gabon
22	Acre	152,581.4	686.652	4,5	Gabon
23	Amapá	142,814.6	615.715	4,3	Guyana
24	Mato Grosso	903,357.9	2.856.999	3,2	Canada
25	Amazonas	1,570,745.7	3.311.026	2,1	French Guiana
26	Roraima	224,299	403.344	1,8	Mongolia

[edit] See also

• Brazil
• States of Brazil
• List of subnational entities

[edit] External links

• States of Brazil at statoids.com

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