Baja California Sur is 1.02× the size of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Baja California Sur (state of Mexico) covers about 72,100 km² (27,800 mi²) and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (region of France) about 70,900 km² (27,400 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

72,100km²Baja California Sur
70,900km²Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

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Baja California Sur
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

What fits

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is 98% of the size of Baja California Sur.
Baja California Sur is larger by 1,200 km² (465 mi²), which is 1.7% of the area of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Measured in Belgiums: Baja California Sur is about 2.35, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes about 2.31.

How they differ

Baja California Sur is larger, but Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes has the larger population: 8.2 million against 637,000, 12.8× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 115 in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes against 8.8 in Baja California Sur: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is 13.0× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 9,820 km apart.
On a standard web map Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes looks larger than Baja California Sur: Baja California Sur at 26°N is drawn about 1.2× too large and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes at 46°N about 2.0×, so the map shows Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes as 1.62× the size of Baja California Sur, when Baja California Sur is 1.02× the size of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Together Baja California Sur and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes cover 143,000 km², close to the size of Tajikistan (142,000 km², 0.6% smaller).
The gap between them, 1,200 km², is about the size of São Tomé and Príncipe (1,040 km²).
At Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes's density, Baja California Sur would have 8.3 million people (it has 637,000). At Baja California Sur's density, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes would have 626,000 (it has 8.2 million).
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes's centre is 19.6° of latitude, about 2,180 km, farther north than Baja California Sur's.
Baja California Sur is the 11th largest of the 32 states of Mexico and covers 3.7% of its area; it is the 32nd most densely populated of them.
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.
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes lies about 20° of latitude (roughly 2,180 km) north of Baja California Sur.
Shared out evenly, each person in Baja California Sur would have about 113,220 m² and each person in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes about 8,690 m².
Laid side by side, Baja California Sur and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes would cover 143,000 km², about the same size as Tajikistan.
Together they have 8.8 million people, about as many people as Papua New Guinea.

Side by side

	Baja California Sur	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Is a	StateMexico	RegionFrance
Area, measured	72,100 km²27,800 mi²	70,900 km²27,400 mi²
Official area	73,900 km²Wikidata	69,700 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	11th of 32in Mexico	4th of 18in France
Population	637,000Wikidata, 2010	8.2 millionWikidata, 2022
Rank by population	32nd of 32in Mexico	2nd of 18in France
Density	8.8 per km²	115 per km²
Capital	La Paz	Lyon
Latitude range	23°N to 28°N	44°N to 47°N

Population: Wikidata 2010 and Wikidata 2022. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Our measured 72,100 km² is 2.4% below Wikidata's official figure of 73,900 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.
Wikidata's official figure of 69,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 70,900 km², to within 2%.

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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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