States & Provinces
Ranked by Population



This list combines the States of the United States and the Provinces & Territories of Canada and then ranks them based on their population.

Since the United States and Canada take their census at different times, they can't be compared directly. For the purpose of this list, we have used the last census from Statistics Canada (performed in 2006) and compared it against the U.S. Census Bureau's Estimated Population counts for the same year.


Country 2006
Population
 
United States 298,593,212
Canada ---




Rank State / Province 2006
Population
  Rank State / Province 2006
Population
 
1 California (CA) 35,979,208  33 Alberta (AB) 3,290,350
2 Texas (TX) 23,369,024  34 Iowa (IA) 2,964,391
3 New York (NY) 19,356,564  35 Mississippi (MS) 2,897,150
 
4 Florida (FL) 18,088,505  36 Arkansas (AR) 2,815,097
5 Illinois (IL) 12,718,011  37 Kansas (KS) 2,755,700
6 Pennsylvania (PA) 12,471,142  38 Utah (UT) 2,583,724
 
7 Ontario (ON) 12,160,282  39 Nevada (NV) 2,493,405
8 Ohio (OH) 11,492,495  40 New Mexico (NM) 1,942,608
9 Michigan (MI) 10,082,438  41 West Virginia (WV) 1,807,237
 
10 Georgia (GA) 9,330,086  42 Nebraska (NE) 1,760,435
11 North Carolina (NC) 8,866,977  43 Idaho (ID) 1,464,413
12 New Jersey (NJ) 8,623,721  44 Maine (ME) 1,314,963
 
13 Virginia (VA) 7,646,996  45 New Hampshire (NH) 1,311,894
14 Quebec (QC) 7,546,131  46 Hawaii (HI) 1,275,599
15 Massachusetts (MA) 6,466,399  47 Manitoba (MB) 1,148,401
 
16 Washington (WA) 6,372,243  48 Rhode Island (RI) 1,060,196
17 Indiana (IN) 6,301,700  49 Saskatchewan (SK) 985,386
18 Arizona (AZ) 6,192,100  50 Montana (MT) 946,230
 
19 Tennessee (TN) 6,089,453  51 Northwest
    Territories (NT)
41,464
20 Missouri (MO) 5,861,572  52 Delaware (DE) 853,022
21 Maryland (MD) 5,612,196  53 South Dakota (SD) 788,519
 
22 Wisconsin (WI) 5,571,680  54 New Brunswick (NB) 729,997
23 Minnesota (MN) 5,148,346  55 Alaska (AK) 677,325
24 Colorado (CO) 4,753,044  56 North Dakota (ND) 636,771
 
25 Alabama (AL) 4,597,688  57 Vermont (VT) 619,985
26 South Carolina (SC) 4,339,399  58 Wyoming (WY) 512,841
27 Louisiana (LA) 4,240,327  59 Newfoundland and
    Labrador (NL)
505,469
 
28 Kentucky (KY) 4,219,374  60 Prince Edward Island (PE) 135,851
29 British Columbia (BC) 4,113,487  61 Nova Scotia (NS) 913,462
30 Oregon (OR) 3,677,545  62 Yukon (YT) 30,372
 
31 Oklahoma (OK) 3,574,334  63 Nunavut (NU) 29,474
32 Connecticut (CT) 3,485,162     

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