Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is 5.78× the size of Hiroshima

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (region of France) covers about 48,000 km² (18,500 mi²) and Hiroshima (prefecture of Japan) about 8,300 km² (3,210 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

48,000km²Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
8,300km²Hiroshima

100 km

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Hiroshima

What fits

Hiroshima fits inside Bourgogne-Franche-Comté about 5.78 times by area.
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is larger by 39,700 km² (15,300 mi²), which is 478% of the area of Hiroshima.
Measured in Belgiums: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is about 1.56, Hiroshima about 0.27.

How they differ

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté also has the larger population: 2.8 million against 2.8 million, 1.00× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 336 in Hiroshima against 58 in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté: Hiroshima is 5.75× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 9,540 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté at 47°N is drawn about 2.2× too large and Hiroshima at 35°N about 1.5×, so the map shows Bourgogne-Franche-Comté as 8.50× the size of Hiroshima instead of 5.78×.
Together Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and Hiroshima cover 56,300 km², close to the size of Togo (56,900 km², 1.0% bigger).
The gap between them, 39,700 km², is about the size of Bhutan (40,400 km²).
At Hiroshima's density, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté would have 16.1 million people (it has 2.8 million). At Bourgogne-Franche-Comté's density, Hiroshima would have 485,000 (it has 2.8 million).
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté's centre is 12.6° of latitude, about 1,400 km, farther north than Hiroshima'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.
Hiroshima is the 12th largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 2.2% of its area; it is the 16th most densely populated of them.
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté lies about 13° of latitude (roughly 1,400 km) north of Hiroshima.
Shared out evenly, each person in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté would have about 17,120 m² and each person in Hiroshima about 2,970 m².
Laid side by side, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and Hiroshima would cover 56,300 km², about the same size as Togo.
Together they have 5.6 million people, about as many people as Norway.

Side by side

	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté	Hiroshima
Is a	RegionFrance	PrefectureJapan
Area, measured	48,000 km²18,500 mi²	8,300 km²3,210 mi²
Official area	47,800 km²Wikidata	8,480 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	6th of 18in France	12th of 47in Japan
Population	2.8 millionWikidata, 2022	2.8 millionWikidata, 2021
Rank by population	11th of 18in France	12th of 47in Japan
Density	58 per km²	336 per km²
Capital	Dijon; Besançon	Hiroshima
Latitude range	46°N to 48°N	34°N to 35°N

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2021. 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 8,300 km² is 2.1% below Wikidata's official figure of 8,480 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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