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Largest fifty first-level subdivisions by population.

This is a list of the most populous first-level administrative country subdivisions in the world, in order of population; most estimates are from 2004, some from 2008. Those subdivisions which are the largest in their respective countries are shown in bold.

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Rank	Subdivision	Type	Country	Population	Area km²	Density
1	Uttar Pradesh	State	India	193,977,661	240,928
2	Maharashtra	State	India	110,662,325	307,713
3	Bihar	State	India	101,341,320	94,163
4	Guangdong	Province	China[1]	94,490,000
5	Shandong	Province	China	93,670,000
6	Henan	Province	China	93,600,000
7	West Bengal	State	India	89,264,179	88,752
8	Sichuan	Province	China	87,795,200
9	Punjab	Province	Pakistan	84,632,500
10	Andhra Pradesh	State	India	83,159,179	275,045
11	Jiangsu	Province	China	76,245,000
12	Madhya Pradesh	State	India	69,972,740	308,245
13	Anhui	Province	China	69,365,800
14	Hebei	Province	China	69,432,000
15	Hunan	Province	China	68,438,400
16	Rajasthan	State	India	66,782,664	342,239
17	Tamil Nadu	State	India	65,948,930	130,058
18	Hubei	Province	China	61,775,700
19	Karnataka	State	India	58,329,865	191,791
20	Gujarat	State	India	57,665,451	196,024
21	England	Country	United Kingdom	49,446,600
22	Guangxi	Province	China	49,244,200
23	Zhejiang	Province	China	46,773,700
24	Liaoning	Province	China	42,997,900
25	Jiangxi	Province	China	42,840,000
26	Yunnan	Province	China	42,119,300
27	West Java	Province	Indonesia	41,480,000
28	São Paulo	State	Brazil	41,055,734
29	Orissa	State	India	40,264,533
30	Dhaka	Division	Bangladesh	39,044,716
31	Heilongjiang	Province	China	38,072,100
32	Guizhou	Province	China	37,964,700
33	East Java	Province	Indonesia	37,264,500
34	Shaanxi	Province	China	37,065,100
35	California	State	United States	36,162,800
36	Sindh	Province	Pakistan	34,968,800
37	Fujian	Province	China	34,341,100
38	Kerala	State	India	33,731,000
39	Shanxi	Province	China	33,602,100
40	Central Java	Province	Indonesia	33,456,300
41	Chongqing	Province level-Municipality	China	32,339,000
42	Jharkhand	State	India	30,970,022
43	Rajshahi	Division	Bangladesh	30,201,873
44	Assam	State	India	29,549,305
45	Punjab	State	India	27,256,683
46	Gansu	Province	China	26,303,900
47	Oromia	Region	Ethiopia	25,125,000
48	Inner Mongolia	Autonomous Region	China	24,454,900
49	Amhara	Region	Ethiopia	24,000,200
50	Texas	State	United States	22,614,300
51	Haryana	State	India	22,336,100
52	Chhattisgarh	State	India	22,032,000
53	North-West Frontier	Province	Pakistan	20,468,700
54	New York	State	United States	19,302,200
55	Minas Gerais	State	Brazil	19,074,500
56	Xinjiang	Autonomous Region	China	18,933,400
57	North Rhine-Westphalia	State	Germany	18,100,000
58	Florida	State	United States	17,407,300
59	Rio de Janeiro	State	Brazil	15,485,700
60	México	State	Mexico	14,837,200
61	Chittagong	Division	Bangladesh	14,705,229
62	Delhi	Capital Territory	India	14,602,200
63	Buenos Aires	Province	Argentina	14,345,700
64	Shanghai	Province level-Municipality	China	13,968,500
65	SNNPR	Region	Ethiopia	13,918,200
66	Bahia	State	Brazil	13,615,200
67	Tehran Province	Province	Iran	13,530,742
68	Tokyo	Prefecture	Japan	12,985,000
69	Illinois	State	United States	12,901,563
70	Bavaria	State	Germany	12,495,000
71	North Sumatra	Province	Indonesia	12,480,500
72	Pennsylvania	State	United States	12,448,279
73	Ontario	Province	Canada	12,419,600
74	Tehran	Province	Iran	11,931,700
75	Beijing	Province level-Municipality	China	11,879,300
76	Metro Manila	Capital Region	Philippines	11,553,427
77	Ohio	State	United States	11,483,400
78	Île-de-France	Region	France	11,264,000
79	Istanbul	Province	Turkey	11,100,400
80	Rio Grande do Sul	State	Brazil	10,758,700
81	Baden-Württemberg	State	Germany	10,747,479
82	Jammu and Kashmir	State	India	10,668,400
83	Moscow	Federal City	Russia	10,406,600
84	Lagos	State	Nigeria	10,405,000
85	Seoul	Special City	South Korea	10,276,968
86	Paraná	State	Brazil	10,157,000
87	Michigan	State	United States	10,137,900
88	KwaZulu-Natal	Province	South Africa	10,070,500
89	Gyeonggi	Province	South Korea	10,041,800
90	Kano	State	Nigeria	9,964,100
91	Gauteng	Province	South Africa	9,839,100
92	Banten	Province	Indonesia	9,782,900
93	Tianjin	Province-level Municipality	China	9,576,600
94	North Carolina	State	United States	9,222,000
95	Jakarta	Special Capital Territory	Indonesia	8,987,800
96	Uttarakhand	State	India	8,983,500
97	Lombardy	Region	Italy	8,898,400
98	Georgia	State	United States	8,875,600
99	Osaka	Prefecture	Japan	8,804,800

Former large subdivisions and/or former populations (split off areas):

• Ukrainian SSR peak of 52 million
• Russian SFSR peak of 149 million.
• Sichuan peak before Chongqing Municipality split off of 114,730,000 ^[2]
• West Java, Indonesia split off Banten in October 2000, with a figure over 43.8 million (Jun 2000 Census) shortly before it split^[3]

[edit] Footnotes

[edit] References

• The World Gazetteer

[edit] See also

• List of the largest country subdivisions by area