Guinea-Bissau is 1.03× the size of Hauts-de-France

Guinea-Bissau (Africa) covers about 32,800 km² (12,700 mi²) and Hauts-de-France (region of France) about 32,000 km² (12,400 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

32,800km²Guinea-Bissau
32,000km²Hauts-de-France

100 km

Guinea-Bissau
Hauts-de-France

What fits

Hauts-de-France is 97% of the size of Guinea-Bissau.
Guinea-Bissau is larger by 842 km² (325 mi²), which is 2.6% of the area of Hauts-de-France.
Measured in Belgiums: Guinea-Bissau is about 1.07, Hauts-de-France about 1.04.

How they differ

Guinea-Bissau is larger, but Hauts-de-France has the larger population: 6.0 million against 1.9 million, 3.22× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 188 in Hauts-de-France against 57 in Guinea-Bissau: Hauts-de-France is 3.31× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 4,520 km apart.
On a standard web map Hauts-de-France looks larger than Guinea-Bissau: Guinea-Bissau at 12°N is drawn about 1.0× too large and Hauts-de-France at 50°N about 2.4×, so the map shows Hauts-de-France as 2.25× the size of Guinea-Bissau, when Guinea-Bissau is 1.03× the size of Hauts-de-France.
Together Guinea-Bissau and Hauts-de-France cover 64,800 km², close to the size of Lithuania (64,900 km², 0.2% bigger).
The gap between them, 842 km², is about the size of Åland (942 km²).
At Hauts-de-France's density, Guinea-Bissau would have 6.2 million people (it has 1.9 million). At Guinea-Bissau's density, Hauts-de-France would have 1.8 million (it has 6.0 million).
Hauts-de-France's centre is 37.9° of latitude, about 4,220 km, farther north than Guinea-Bissau's.
Guinea-Bissau ranks 140th of 246 countries and territories by area.
Hauts-de-France is the 9th largest of the 18 regions of France and covers 5.0% of its area; it is the 6th most densely populated of them.
Hauts-de-France lies about 38° of latitude (roughly 4,220 km) north of Guinea-Bissau.
Shared out evenly, each person in Guinea-Bissau would have about 17,640 m² and each person in Hauts-de-France about 5,330 m².
Laid side by side, Guinea-Bissau and Hauts-de-France would cover 64,800 km², about the same size as Lithuania.
Together they have 7.9 million people, about as many people as Togo.
Counted as a country, Hauts-de-France would rank 140th by area and 115th by population.

Side by side

	Guinea-Bissau	Hauts-de-France
Is a	CountryAfrica	RegionFrance
Area, measured	32,800 km²12,700 mi²	32,000 km²12,400 mi²
Official area	36,100 km²Wikidata	31,800 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	139th of 239worldwide	9th of 18in France
Population	1.9 millionWikidata, 2017	6.0 millionWikidata, 2022
Rank by population	149th of 237worldwide	5th of 18in France
Density	57 per km²	188 per km²
Capital	Bissau	Lille
Latitude range	11°N to 13°N	49°N to 51°N

Population: Wikidata 2017 and Wikidata 2022. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Our measured 32,800 km² is 9.1% below Wikidata's official figure of 36,100 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 31,800 km² agrees with our measured area of 32,000 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain for the region; Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, public domain. The outline of Hauts-de-France 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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