Abstract: We show that the ground state of the Heisenberg spin-1/2 chain in an external magnetic field, can be exactly expressed as a matrix product state, provided that the coupling constants are constrained to be on a specific two dimensional surface. This ground state has a very interesting property: all the pairs of spins are equally entangled with each other. In this last respect, the results are of interest for engineering long-range entanglement in experimentally realizable finite arrays of qubits, where the ground state will act as the initial state of a quantum computer.