Centre-Val de Loire is 1.55× the size of Maryland

Centre-Val de Loire (region of France) covers about 39,400 km² (15,200 mi²) and Maryland (state of the United States) about 25,500 km² (9,830 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

39,400km²Centre-Val de Loire
25,500km²Maryland

100 km

Centre-Val de Loire
Maryland

What fits

Maryland is 65% of the size of Centre-Val de Loire.
Centre-Val de Loire is larger by 13,900 km² (5,360 mi²), which is 55% of the area of Maryland.
Measured in Belgiums: Centre-Val de Loire is about 1.28, Maryland about 0.83.

How they differ

Centre-Val de Loire is larger, but Maryland has the larger population: 6.2 million against 2.6 million, 2.39× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 243 in Maryland against 66 in Centre-Val de Loire: Maryland is 3.70× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 6,150 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Centre-Val de Loire at 47°N is drawn about 2.2× too large and Maryland at 39°N about 1.7×, so the map shows Centre-Val de Loire as 2.04× the size of Maryland instead of 1.55×.
Together Centre-Val de Loire and Maryland cover 64,800 km², close to the size of Lithuania (64,900 km², 0.2% bigger).
The gap between them, 13,900 km², is about the size of Montenegro (13,700 km²).
At Maryland's density, Centre-Val de Loire would have 9.5 million people (it has 2.6 million). At Centre-Val de Loire's density, Maryland would have 1.7 million (it has 6.2 million).
Centre-Val de Loire's centre is 8.4° of latitude, about 940 km, farther north than Maryland'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.
Maryland is the 42nd largest of the 51 states and districts of the United States and covers 0.3% of its area; it is the 6th most densely populated of them.
Centre-Val de Loire lies about 8° of latitude (roughly 937 km) north of Maryland.
Shared out evenly, each person in Centre-Val de Loire would have about 15,240 m² and each person in Maryland about 4,120 m².
Laid side by side, Centre-Val de Loire and Maryland would cover 64,800 km², about the same size as Lithuania.
Together they have 8.8 million people, about as many people as Papua New Guinea.

Side by side

	Centre-Val de Loire	Maryland
Is a	RegionFrance	StateUnited States
Area, measured	39,400 km²15,200 mi²	25,500 km²9,830 mi²
Official area	39,200 km²Wikidata	32,100 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	7th of 18in France	42nd of 51in the United States
Population	2.6 millionWikidata, 2022	6.2 millionWikidata, 2020
Rank by population	12th of 18in France	18th of 51in the United States
Density	66 per km²	243 per km²
Capital	Orléans	Annapolis
Latitude range	46°N to 49°N	38°N to 40°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 25,500 km² is 21% below Wikidata's official figure of 32,100 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.

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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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