Provinces of Brazil

Provinces of Brazil
The Empire of Brazil in 1889. Cisplatina had been lost since 1828 and two new provinces had been created since then (Amazonas and Paraná)
Category	Province
Location	Empire of Brazil
Number	20 provinces and 1 neutral municipality (as of 1889)
Populations	57,610 (Amazonas) – 2,039,735 (Minas Gerais) (as of 1872)

The provinces of Brazil were the primary subdivisions of the country during the period of the Empire of Brazil (1822 – 1889).^[1]

On February 28, 1821, the provinces were established in the Kingdom of Brazil (then part of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves), superseding the captaincies that were in place at the time.