Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is 1.10× the size of San Luis Potosí

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (region of France) covers about 70,900 km² (27,400 mi²) and San Luis Potosí (state of Mexico) about 64,200 km² (24,800 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

70,900km²Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
64,200km²San Luis Potosí

100 km

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
San Luis Potosí

What fits

San Luis Potosí is 91% of the size of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is larger by 6,720 km² (2,590 mi²), which is 10% of the area of San Luis Potosí.
Measured in Belgiums: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is about 2.31, San Luis Potosí about 2.09.

How they differ

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes also has the larger population: 8.2 million against 2.7 million, 3.00× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 115 in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes against 42 in San Luis Potosí: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is 2.72× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 9,320 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes at 46°N is drawn about 2.0× too large and San Luis Potosí at 23°N about 1.2×, so the map shows Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes as 1.92× the size of San Luis Potosí instead of 1.10×.
Together Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and San Luis Potosí cover 135,000 km², close to the size of Bangladesh (137,000 km², 1.3% bigger).
The gap between them, 6,720 km², is about the size of Palestine (6,070 km²).
At San Luis Potosí's density, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes would have 3.0 million people (it has 8.2 million). At Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes's density, San Luis Potosí would have 7.4 million (it has 2.7 million).
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes's centre is 22.9° of latitude, about 2,550 km, farther north than San Luis Potosí's.
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is the 4th largest of the 18 regions of France and covers 11% of its area; it is the 10th most densely populated of them.
San Luis Potosí is the 15th largest of the 32 states of Mexico and covers 3.3% of its area; it is the 25th most densely populated of them.
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes lies about 23° of latitude (roughly 2,550 km) north of San Luis Potosí.
Shared out evenly, each person in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes would have about 8,690 m² and each person in San Luis Potosí about 23,620 m².
Laid side by side, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and San Luis Potosí would cover 135,000 km², about the same size as Bangladesh.
Together they have 10.9 million people, about as many people as Czechia.

Side by side

	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes	San Luis Potosí
Is a	RegionFrance	StateMexico
Area, measured	70,900 km²27,400 mi²	64,200 km²24,800 mi²
Official area	69,700 km²Wikidata	61,000 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	4th of 18in France	15th of 32in Mexico
Population	8.2 millionWikidata, 2022	2.7 millionWikidata, 2015
Rank by population	2nd of 18in France	19th of 32in Mexico
Density	115 per km²	42 per km²
Capital	Lyon	San Luis Potosí
Latitude range	44°N to 47°N	21°N to 25°N

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2015. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 69,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 70,900 km², to within 2%.
Our measured 64,200 km² is 5.3% above Wikidata's official figure of 61,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain. The outline of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is the departments Natural Earth draws there, joined along their shared borders.
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. A region is drawn whole, every island included; a country is its main territory.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded.
Drawing: Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and the two can be laid over each other.
Data built: 2026-11-12

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