Centre-Val de Loire is 1.52× the size of Sicily (Italy)

Centre-Val de Loire (region of France) covers about 39,400 km² (15,200 mi²) and Sicily (Italy) (region of Italy) about 25,900 km² (9,990 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

39,400km²Centre-Val de Loire
25,900km²Sicily (Italy)

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Centre-Val de Loire
Sicily (Italy)

What fits

Sicily (Italy) is 66% of the size of Centre-Val de Loire.
Centre-Val de Loire is larger by 13,500 km² (5,210 mi²), which is 52% of the area of Sicily (Italy).
Measured in Belgiums: Centre-Val de Loire is about 1.28, Sicily (Italy) about 0.84.

How they differ

Centre-Val de Loire is larger, but Sicily (Italy) has the larger population: 5.0 million against 2.6 million, 1.93× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 193 in Sicily (Italy) against 66 in Centre-Val de Loire: Sicily (Italy) is 2.94× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 1,500 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Centre-Val de Loire at 47°N is drawn about 2.2× too large and Sicily (Italy) at 38°N about 1.6×, so the map shows Centre-Val de Loire as 2.09× the size of Sicily (Italy) instead of 1.52×.
Together Centre-Val de Loire and Sicily (Italy) cover 65,200 km², close to the size of Lithuania (64,900 km², 0.4% smaller).
The gap between them, 13,500 km², is about the size of Montenegro (13,700 km²).
At Sicily (Italy)'s density, Centre-Val de Loire would have 7.6 million people (it has 2.6 million). At Centre-Val de Loire's density, Sicily (Italy) would have 1.7 million (it has 5.0 million).
Centre-Val de Loire's centre is 9.9° of latitude, about 1,100 km, farther north than Sicily (Italy)'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.
Sicily (Italy) is the largest of the 20 regions of Italy and covers 8.6% of its area; it is the 8th most densely populated of them.
Centre-Val de Loire lies about 10° of latitude (roughly 1,100 km) north of Sicily (Italy).
Shared out evenly, each person in Centre-Val de Loire would have about 15,240 m² and each person in Sicily (Italy) about 5,190 m².
Laid side by side, Centre-Val de Loire and Sicily (Italy) would cover 65,200 km², about the same size as Lithuania.
Together they have 7.6 million people, about as many people as Sierra Leone.

Side by side

	Centre-Val de Loire	Sicily (Italy)
Is a	RegionFrance	RegionItaly
Area, measured	39,400 km²15,200 mi²	25,900 km²9,990 mi²
Official area	39,200 km²Wikidata	25,700 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	7th of 18in France	1st of 20in Italy
Population	2.6 millionWikidata, 2022	5.0 millionWikidata, 2019
Rank by population	12th of 18in France	4th of 20in Italy
Density	66 per km²	193 per km²
Capital	Orléans	Palermo
Latitude range	46°N to 49°N	35°N to 39°N

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2019. 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 25,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 25,900 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. The outline of Sicily (Italy) is the provinces 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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