Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is 8.29× the size of Federal District

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (region of France) covers about 48,000 km² (18,500 mi²) and Federal District (federal district of Brazil) about 5,790 km² (2,240 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

48,000km²Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
5,790km²Federal District

100 km

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Federal District

What fits

Federal District fits inside Bourgogne-Franche-Comté about 8.29 times by area.
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is larger by 42,200 km² (16,300 mi²), which is 729% of the area of Federal District.
Measured in Belgiums: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is about 1.56, Federal District about 0.19.

How they differ

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is larger, but Federal District has the larger population: 2.8 million against 2.8 million, 1.00× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 486 in Federal District against 58 in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté: Federal District is 8.33× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 8,740 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté at 47°N is drawn about 2.2× too large and Federal District at 16°S about 1.1×, so the map shows Bourgogne-Franche-Comté as 16.6× the size of Federal District instead of 8.29×.
Together Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and Federal District cover 53,800 km², close to the size of Croatia (55,000 km², 2.3% bigger).
The gap between them, 42,200 km², is about the size of Denmark (42,700 km²).
At Federal District's density, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté would have 23.3 million people (it has 2.8 million). At Bourgogne-Franche-Comté's density, Federal District would have 338,000 (it has 2.8 million).
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté's centre is 63.0° of latitude, about 7,010 km, farther north than Federal District'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.
Federal District is the 27th largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers less than 0.1% of its area; it is the most densely populated of them.
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté lies about 63° of latitude (roughly 7,010 km) north of Federal District, on the other side of the equator.
Shared out evenly, each person in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté would have about 17,120 m² and each person in Federal District about 2,060 m².
Laid side by side, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and Federal District would cover 53,800 km², about the same size as Croatia.
Together they have 5.6 million people, about as many people as Norway.

Side by side

	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté	Federal District
Is a	RegionFrance	Federal DistrictBrazil
Area, measured	48,000 km²18,500 mi²	5,790 km²2,240 mi²
Official area	47,800 km²Wikidata	5,760 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	6th of 18in France	27th of 27in Brazil
Population	2.8 millionWikidata, 2022	2.8 millionWikidata, 2022
Rank by population	11th of 18in France	20th of 27in Brazil
Density	58 per km²	486 per km²
Capital	Dijon; Besançon	Brasília
Latitude range	46°N to 48°N	16°S to 15°S

Population: Wikidata 2022. 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 5,760 km² agrees with our measured area of 5,790 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 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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