Centre-Val de Loire is 1.73× the size of Chiang Mai

Centre-Val de Loire (region of France) covers about 39,400 km² (15,200 mi²) and Chiang Mai (province of Thailand) about 22,800 km² (8,790 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

39,400km²Centre-Val de Loire
22,800km²Chiang Mai

50 km

Centre-Val de Loire
Chiang Mai

What fits

Chiang Mai is 58% of the size of Centre-Val de Loire.
Centre-Val de Loire is larger by 16,600 km² (6,410 mi²), which is 73% of the area of Chiang Mai.
Measured in Belgiums: Centre-Val de Loire is about 1.28, Chiang Mai about 0.74.

How they differ

Centre-Val de Loire also has the larger population: 2.6 million against 1.8 million, 1.45× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 78 in Chiang Mai against 66 in Centre-Val de Loire: Chiang Mai is 1.20× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 8,990 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Centre-Val de Loire at 47°N is drawn about 2.2× too large and Chiang Mai at 19°N about 1.1×, so the map shows Centre-Val de Loire as 3.39× the size of Chiang Mai instead of 1.73×.
Together Centre-Val de Loire and Chiang Mai cover 62,100 km², close to the size of Latvia (64,600 km², 4.0% bigger).
The gap between them, 16,600 km², is about the size of Eswatini (17,100 km²).
At Chiang Mai's density, Centre-Val de Loire would have 3.1 million people (it has 2.6 million). At Centre-Val de Loire's density, Chiang Mai would have 1.5 million (it has 1.8 million).
Centre-Val de Loire's centre is 28.7° of latitude, about 3,190 km, farther north than Chiang Mai's.
Centre-Val de Loire is the 7th largest of the 18 regions of France and covers 6.2% of its area; it is the 15th most densely populated of them.
Chiang Mai is the largest of the 77 provinces of Thailand and covers 4.4% of its area; it is the 64th most densely populated of them.
Centre-Val de Loire lies about 29° of latitude (roughly 3,190 km) north of Chiang Mai.
Shared out evenly, each person in Centre-Val de Loire would have about 15,240 m² and each person in Chiang Mai about 12,750 m².
Laid side by side, Centre-Val de Loire and Chiang Mai would cover 62,100 km², 96% of the size of Latvia.
Together they have 4.4 million people, about as many people as Kuwait.

Side by side

	Centre-Val de Loire	Chiang Mai
Is a	RegionFrance	ProvinceThailand
Area, measured	39,400 km²15,200 mi²	22,800 km²8,790 mi²
Official area	39,200 km²Wikidata	22,300 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	7th of 18in France	1st of 77in Thailand
Population	2.6 millionWikidata, 2022	1.8 millionWikidata, 2020
Rank by population	12th of 18in France	5th of 77in Thailand
Density	66 per km²	78 per km²
Capital	Orléans	Chiang Mai
Latitude range	46°N to 49°N	17°N to 20°N

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2020. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 39,200 km² agrees with our measured area of 39,400 km², to within 2%.
Our measured 22,800 km² is 2.0% above Wikidata's official figure of 22,300 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 Centre-Val de Loire 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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