Centre-Val de Loire is 1.90× the size of Nakhon Ratchasima

Centre-Val de Loire (region of France) covers about 39,400 km² (15,200 mi²) and Nakhon Ratchasima (province of Thailand) about 20,800 km² (8,020 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

39,400km²Centre-Val de Loire
20,800km²Nakhon Ratchasima

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Centre-Val de Loire
Nakhon Ratchasima

What fits

Nakhon Ratchasima is 53% of the size of Centre-Val de Loire.
Centre-Val de Loire is larger by 18,600 km² (7,180 mi²), which is 90% of the area of Nakhon Ratchasima.
Measured in Belgiums: Centre-Val de Loire is about 1.28, Nakhon Ratchasima about 0.68.

How they differ

Centre-Val de Loire is larger, but Nakhon Ratchasima has the larger population: 2.6 million against 2.6 million, 1.02× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 127 in Nakhon Ratchasima against 66 in Centre-Val de Loire: Nakhon Ratchasima is 1.93× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 9,550 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Centre-Val de Loire at 47°N is drawn about 2.2× too large and Nakhon Ratchasima at 15°N about 1.1×, so the map shows Centre-Val de Loire as 3.87× the size of Nakhon Ratchasima instead of 1.90×.
Together Centre-Val de Loire and Nakhon Ratchasima cover 60,100 km², close to the size of Togo (56,900 km², 5.4% smaller).
The gap between them, 18,600 km², is about the size of Fiji (18,900 km²).
At Nakhon Ratchasima's density, Centre-Val de Loire would have 5.0 million people (it has 2.6 million). At Centre-Val de Loire's density, Nakhon Ratchasima would have 1.4 million (it has 2.6 million).
Centre-Val de Loire's centre is 32.5° of latitude, about 3,620 km, farther north than Nakhon Ratchasima'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.
Nakhon Ratchasima is the 2nd largest of the 77 provinces of Thailand and covers 4.0% of its area; it is the 37th most densely populated of them.
Centre-Val de Loire lies about 33° of latitude (roughly 3,620 km) north of Nakhon Ratchasima.
Shared out evenly, each person in Centre-Val de Loire would have about 15,240 m² and each person in Nakhon Ratchasima about 7,880 m².
Laid side by side, Centre-Val de Loire and Nakhon Ratchasima would cover 60,100 km², 1.06× the size of Togo.
Together they have 5.2 million people, about as many people as Liberia.

Side by side

	Centre-Val de Loire	Nakhon Ratchasima
Is a	RegionFrance	ProvinceThailand
Area, measured	39,400 km²15,200 mi²	20,800 km²8,020 mi²
Official area	39,200 km²Wikidata	20,500 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	7th of 18in France	2nd of 77in Thailand
Population	2.6 millionWikidata, 2022	2.6 millionWikidata, 2020
Rank by population	12th of 18in France	2nd of 77in Thailand
Density	66 per km²	127 per km²
Capital	Orléans	Nakhon Ratchasima
Latitude range	46°N to 49°N	14°N to 16°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%.
Wikidata's official figure of 20,500 km² agrees with our measured area of 20,800 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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