Friuli-Venezia Giulia is 1.13× the size of Tochigi

Friuli-Venezia Giulia (region of Italy) covers about 7,340 km² (2,830 mi²) and Tochigi (prefecture of Japan) about 6,480 km² (2,500 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

7,340km²Friuli-Venezia Giulia
6,480km²Tochigi

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Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Tochigi

What fits

Tochigi is 88% of the size of Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
Friuli-Venezia Giulia is larger by 860 km² (332 mi²), which is 13% of the area of Tochigi.
Measured in Belgiums: Friuli-Venezia Giulia is about 0.24, Tochigi about 0.21.

How they differ

Friuli-Venezia Giulia is larger, but Tochigi has the larger population: 1.9 million against 1.2 million, 1.59× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 297 in Tochigi against 166 in Friuli-Venezia Giulia: Tochigi is 1.80× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 9,380 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Friuli-Venezia Giulia at 46°N is drawn about 2.1× too large and Tochigi at 37°N about 1.6×, so the map shows Friuli-Venezia Giulia as 1.52× the size of Tochigi instead of 1.13×.
Together Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Tochigi cover 13,800 km², close to the size of Montenegro (13,700 km², 0.7% smaller).
The gap between them, 860 km², is about the size of Åland (942 km²).
At Tochigi's density, Friuli-Venezia Giulia would have 2.2 million people (it has 1.2 million). At Friuli-Venezia Giulia's density, Tochigi would have 1.1 million (it has 1.9 million).
Friuli-Venezia Giulia's centre is 9.5° of latitude, about 1,050 km, farther north than Tochigi's.
Friuli-Venezia Giulia is the 17th largest of the 20 regions of Italy and covers 2.4% of its area; it is the 10th most densely populated of them.
Tochigi is the 21st largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 1.7% of its area; it is the 22nd most densely populated of them.
Friuli-Venezia Giulia lies about 9° of latitude (roughly 1,050 km) north of Tochigi.
Shared out evenly, each person in Friuli-Venezia Giulia would have about 6,040 m² and each person in Tochigi about 3,360 m².
Laid side by side, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Tochigi would cover 13,800 km², about the same size as Montenegro.
Together they have 3.1 million people, 1.07× as many people as Armenia.

Side by side

	Friuli-Venezia Giulia	Tochigi
Is a	RegionItaly	PrefectureJapan
Area, measured	7,340 km²2,830 mi²	6,480 km²2,500 mi²
Official area	7,860 km²Wikidata	6,410 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	17th of 20in Italy	21st of 47in Japan
Population	1.2 millionWikidata, 2019	1.9 millionWikidata, 2021
Rank by population	15th of 20in Italy	19th of 47in Japan
Density	166 per km²	297 per km²
Capital	Trieste	Utsunomiya
Latitude range	46°N to 47°N	36°N to 37°N

Population: Wikidata 2019 and Wikidata 2021. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Our measured 7,340 km² is 6.6% below Wikidata's official figure of 7,860 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.
Wikidata's official figure of 6,410 km² agrees with our measured area of 6,480 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 Friuli-Venezia Giulia 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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