Top 20 most populous states, provinces and regions
World > country: the biggest first-level regions
Updated · population (people)
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Why these 20
Population of each country's first-level regions (states, provinces, prefectures, oblasts) from Wikidata, which takes it from census offices. Where Wikidata has figures for several years the highest is used, which is usually the latest census; regions that shrink may show an older, larger figure.
Built from the regions below: the best 20 of all of them.
- 1 U
- 2 P
- 3 G
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4
M
Maharashtra
महाराष्ट्र
state in the western and central peninsular region of India
112,372,972 · 🇮🇳 India
- 5 B
- 6 S
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7
H
Henan
河南省
province of the People's Republic of China (1949-)
99,365,519 · 🇨🇳 People's Republic of China
- 8 W
- 9 J
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10
S
Sichuan
四川省
province of China, previously inclusive of the present Chongqing Municipality
83,674,866 · 🇨🇳 People's Republic of China
- 11 H
- 12 M
- 13 T
- 14 R
- 15 H
- 16 Z
- 17 K
- 18 A
- 19 G
- 20 H
How it is measured
Wikidata: the first-level divisions each country lists as its own (P150, contains the administrative territorial entity) that have a population (P1082) and no dissolution date; grouped by country, the world view is built from the countries.
References
- Wikidata query: first-level regions by population, Wikidata (CC0). Checked 2026-10-20 04:46 UTC.
