Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is 1.12× the size of Denmark

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (region of France) covers about 48,000 km² (18,500 mi²) and Denmark (Europe) about 42,700 km² (16,500 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

48,000km²Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
42,700km²Denmark

100 km

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Denmark

What fits

Denmark is 89% of the size of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is larger by 5,300 km² (2,050 mi²), which is 12% of the area of Denmark.
Measured in Belgiums: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is about 1.56, Denmark about 1.39.

How they differ

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is larger, but Denmark has the larger population: 5.8 million against 2.8 million, 2.08× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 136 in Denmark against 58 in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté: Denmark is 2.33× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 1,040 km apart.
On a standard web map Denmark looks larger than Bourgogne-Franche-Comté: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté at 47°N is drawn about 2.2× too large and Denmark at 56°N about 3.2×, so the map shows Denmark as 1.31× the size of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, when Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is 1.12× the size of Denmark.
Together Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and Denmark cover 90,700 km², close to the size of Western Sahara (90,500 km², 0.2% smaller).
The gap between them, 5,300 km², is about the size of Cyprus (5,400 km²).
At Denmark's density, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté would have 6.5 million people (it has 2.8 million). At Bourgogne-Franche-Comté's density, Denmark would have 2.5 million (it has 5.8 million).
Denmark's centre is 8.7° of latitude, about 970 km, farther north than Bourgogne-Franche-Comté'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.
Denmark ranks 134th of 246 countries and territories by area.
Denmark lies about 9° of latitude (roughly 970 km) north of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Shared out evenly, each person in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté would have about 17,120 m² and each person in Denmark about 7,330 m².
Laid side by side, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and Denmark would cover 90,700 km², about the same size as Portugal.
Together they have 8.6 million people, 97% as many people as Papua New Guinea.
Counted as a country, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté would rank 132nd by area and 140th by population.

Side by side

	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté	Denmark
Is a	RegionFrance	CountryEurope
Area, measured	48,000 km²18,500 mi²	42,700 km²16,500 mi²
Official area	47,800 km²Wikidata	42,900 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	6th of 18in France	133rd of 239worldwide
Population	2.8 millionWikidata, 2022	5.8 millionWikidata, 2020
Rank by population	11th of 18in France	115th of 237worldwide
Density	58 per km²	136 per km²
Capital	Dijon; Besançon	Copenhagen
Latitude range	46°N to 48°N	55°N to 58°N

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2020. 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 42,900 km² agrees with our measured area of 42,700 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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