Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is 2.25× the size of Hidalgo

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (region of France) covers about 48,000 km² (18,500 mi²) and Hidalgo (state of Mexico) about 21,300 km² (8,230 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

48,000km²Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
21,300km²Hidalgo

100 km

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Hidalgo

What fits

Hidalgo fits inside Bourgogne-Franche-Comté about 2.25 times by area.
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is larger by 26,700 km² (10,300 mi²), which is 125% of the area of Hidalgo.
Measured in Belgiums: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is about 1.56, Hidalgo about 0.69.

How they differ

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is larger, but Hidalgo has the larger population: 2.9 million against 2.8 million, 1.02× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 134 in Hidalgo against 58 in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté: Hidalgo is 2.30× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 9,330 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté at 47°N is drawn about 2.2× too large and Hidalgo at 20°N about 1.1×, so the map shows Bourgogne-Franche-Comté as 4.29× the size of Hidalgo instead of 2.25×.
Together Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and Hidalgo cover 69,300 km², close to the size of Ireland (69,400 km², 0.2% bigger).
The gap between them, 26,700 km², is about the size of Equatorial Guinea (26,700 km²).
At Hidalgo's density, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté would have 6.4 million people (it has 2.8 million). At Bourgogne-Franche-Comté's density, Hidalgo would have 1.2 million (it has 2.9 million).
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté's centre is 26.8° of latitude, about 2,980 km, farther north than Hidalgo'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.
Hidalgo is the 26th largest of the 32 states of Mexico and covers 1.1% of its area; it is the 9th most densely populated of them.
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté lies about 27° of latitude (roughly 2,980 km) north of Hidalgo.
Shared out evenly, each person in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté would have about 17,120 m² and each person in Hidalgo about 7,450 m².
Laid side by side, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and Hidalgo would cover 69,300 km², about the same size as Ireland.
Together they have 5.7 million people, about as many people as Finland.

Side by side

	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté	Hidalgo
Is a	RegionFrance	StateMexico
Area, measured	48,000 km²18,500 mi²	21,300 km²8,230 mi²
Official area	47,800 km²Wikidata	20,800 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	6th of 18in France	26th of 32in Mexico
Population	2.8 millionWikidata, 2022	2.9 millionWikidata, 2015
Rank by population	11th of 18in France	17th of 32in Mexico
Density	58 per km²	134 per km²
Capital	Dijon; Besançon	Pachuca
Latitude range	46°N to 48°N	20°N to 21°N

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

Wikidata's official figure of 47,800 km² agrees with our measured area of 48,000 km², to within 2%.
Our measured 21,300 km² is 2.3% above Wikidata's official figure of 20,800 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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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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