List of Brazilian states by area

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Brazilian states by area.

There are 27 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 area, from Amazonas with the greatest area, to the Federal District with the least. The second number in bold corresponds to the map. Brazil has a total area of 8,514,877 km², and is ranked 5th in the world.

Rank	State	Area^[1]	Comparable country
1	Amazonas	1,570,745.7	Mongolia
2	Pará	1,247,689.5	Angola
3	Mato Grosso	903,357.9	Venezuela
4	Minas Gerais	586,528.3	France
5	Bahia	564,692.7	Kenya
6	Mato Grosso do Sul	357,125	Germany
7	Goiás	340,086.7	Finland
8	Maranhão	331,983.3	Vietnam
9	Rio Grande do Sul	281,748.5	Burkina Faso
10	Tocantins	277,620.9	Burkina Faso
11	Piauí	251,529.2	Ecuador
12	São Paulo	248,209.4	United Kingdom
13	Rondônia	237,576.2	Romania
14	Roraima	224,299	Guyana
15	Paraná	199,314.9	Kyrgyzstan
16	Acre	152,581.4	Nepal
17	Ceará	148,825.6	Nepal
18	Amapá	142,814.6	Tajikistan
19	Pernambuco	98,311.6	South Korea
20	Santa Catarina	95,346.2	Portugal
21	Paraíba	56,439.8	Croatia
22	Rio Grande do Norte	52,796.8	Bosnia and Herzegovina
23	Espírito Santo	46,077.5	Estonia
24	Rio de Janeiro	43,696.1	Denmark
25	Alagoas	27,767.7	Haiti
26	Sergipe	21,910.3	Israel
27	Distrito Federal	5,801.9	Brunei