Centre-Val de Loire is 8.53× the size of Kyoto

Centre-Val de Loire (region of France) covers about 39,400 km² (15,200 mi²) and Kyoto (prefecture of Japan) about 4,610 km² (1,780 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

39,400km²Centre-Val de Loire
4,610km²Kyoto

50 km

Centre-Val de Loire
Kyoto

What fits

Kyoto fits inside Centre-Val de Loire about 8.53 times by area.
Centre-Val de Loire is larger by 34,700 km² (13,400 mi²), which is 753% of the area of Kyoto.
Measured in Belgiums: Centre-Val de Loire is about 1.28, Kyoto about 0.15.

How they differ

Centre-Val de Loire also has the larger population: 2.6 million against 2.6 million, 1.01× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 556 in Kyoto against 66 in Centre-Val de Loire: Kyoto is 8.47× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 9,730 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Centre-Val de Loire at 47°N is drawn about 2.2× too large and Kyoto at 35°N about 1.5×, so the map shows Centre-Val de Loire as 12.5× the size of Kyoto instead of 8.53×.
Together Centre-Val de Loire and Kyoto cover 44,000 km², close to the size of Denmark (42,700 km², 2.9% smaller).
The gap between them, 34,700 km², is about the size of Taiwan (36,200 km²).
At Kyoto's density, Centre-Val de Loire would have 21.9 million people (it has 2.6 million). At Centre-Val de Loire's density, Kyoto would have 302,000 (it has 2.6 million).
Centre-Val de Loire's centre is 12.2° of latitude, about 1,360 km, farther north than Kyoto'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.
Kyoto is the 30th largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 1.2% of its area; it is the 10th most densely populated of them.
Centre-Val de Loire lies about 12° of latitude (roughly 1,360 km) north of Kyoto.
Shared out evenly, each person in Centre-Val de Loire would have about 15,240 m² and each person in Kyoto about 1,800 m².
Laid side by side, Centre-Val de Loire and Kyoto would cover 44,000 km², about the same size as Denmark.
Together they have 5.1 million people, about as many people as Nicaragua.

Side by side

	Centre-Val de Loire	Kyoto
Is a	RegionFrance	PrefectureJapan
Area, measured	39,400 km²15,200 mi²	4,610 km²1,780 mi²
Official area	39,200 km²Wikidata	4,610 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	7th of 18in France	30th of 47in Japan
Population	2.6 millionWikidata, 2022	2.6 millionWikidata, 2021
Rank by population	12th of 18in France	13th of 47in Japan
Density	66 per km²	556 per km²
Capital	Orléans	Kyoto
Latitude range	46°N to 49°N	35°N to 36°N

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2021. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 39,200 km² agrees with our measured area of 39,400 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 4,610 km² agrees with our measured area of 4,610 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 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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