Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is 1.69× the size of Albania

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (region of France) covers about 48,000 km² (18,500 mi²) and Albania (Europe) about 28,300 km² (10,900 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

48,000km²Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
28,300km²Albania

100 km

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Albania

What fits

Albania is 59% of the size of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is larger by 19,700 km² (7,590 mi²), which is 69% of the area of Albania.
Measured in Belgiums: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is about 1.56, Albania about 0.92.

How they differ

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is larger, but Albania has the larger population: 2.8 million against 2.8 million, 1.00× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 99 in Albania against 58 in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté: Albania is 1.70× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 1,390 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté at 47°N is drawn about 2.2× too large and Albania at 41°N about 1.8×, so the map shows Bourgogne-Franche-Comté as 2.08× the size of Albania instead of 1.69×.
Together Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and Albania cover 76,300 km², close to the size of Serbia (77,600 km², 1.7% bigger).
The gap between them, 19,700 km², is about the size of Slovenia (20,300 km²).
At Albania's density, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté would have 4.8 million people (it has 2.8 million). At Bourgogne-Franche-Comté's density, Albania would have 1.7 million (it has 2.8 million).
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté's centre is 6.1° of latitude, about 680 km, farther north than Albania's.
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is the 6th largest of the 18 regions of France and covers 7.5% of its area; it is the 16th most densely populated of them.
Albania ranks 144th of 246 countries and territories by area.
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté lies about 6° of latitude (roughly 678 km) north of Albania.
Shared out evenly, each person in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté would have about 17,120 m² and each person in Albania about 10,080 m².
Laid side by side, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and Albania would cover 76,300 km², about the same size as Serbia.
Together they have 5.6 million people, about as many people as Norway.
Counted as a country, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté would rank 132nd by area and 140th by population.

Side by side

	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté	Albania
Is a	RegionFrance	CountryEurope
Area, measured	48,000 km²18,500 mi²	28,300 km²10,900 mi²
Official area	47,800 km²Wikidata	28,700 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	6th of 18in France	143rd of 239worldwide
Population	2.8 millionWikidata, 2022	2.8 millionWikidata, 2023
Rank by population	11th of 18in France	139th of 237worldwide
Density	58 per km²	99 per km²
Capital	Dijon; Besançon	Tirana
Latitude range	46°N to 48°N	40°N to 43°N

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2023. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 47,800 km² agrees with our measured area of 48,000 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 28,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 28,300 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain for the region; Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, public domain. The outline of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté 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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