Lebanon is 1.15× the size of Corsica (France)

Lebanon (Asia) covers about 10,000 km² (3,860 mi²) and Corsica (France) (region of France) about 8,670 km² (3,350 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

10,000km²Lebanon
8,670km²Corsica (France)

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Lebanon
Corsica (France)

What fits

Corsica (France) is 87% of the size of Lebanon.
Lebanon is larger by 1,340 km² (517 mi²), which is 15% of the area of Corsica (France).
Measured in Belgiums: Lebanon is about 0.33, Corsica (France) about 0.28.

How they differ

Lebanon also has the larger population: 6.1 million against 351,000, 17.4× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 610 in Lebanon against 41 in Corsica (France): Lebanon is 15.0× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 2,500 km apart.
On a standard web map Corsica (France) looks larger than Lebanon: Lebanon at 34°N is drawn about 1.5× too large and Corsica (France) at 42°N about 1.8×, so the map shows Corsica (France) as 1.09× the size of Lebanon, when Lebanon is 1.15× the size of Corsica (France).
Together Lebanon and Corsica (France) cover 18,700 km², close to the size of Fiji (18,900 km², 1.4% bigger).
The gap between them, 1,340 km², is about the size of Comoros (1,670 km²).
At Corsica (France)'s density, Lebanon would have 406,000 people (it has 6.1 million). At Lebanon's density, Corsica (France) would have 5.3 million (it has 351,000).
Corsica (France)'s centre is 8.2° of latitude, about 920 km, farther north than Lebanon's.
Lebanon ranks 169th of 246 countries and territories by area.
Corsica (France) is the 14th largest of the 18 regions of France and covers 1.4% of its area; it is the 17th most densely populated of them.
Corsica (France) lies about 8° of latitude (roughly 916 km) north of Lebanon.
Shared out evenly, each person in Lebanon would have about 1,640 m² and each person in Corsica (France) about 24,670 m².
Laid side by side, Lebanon and Corsica (France) would cover 18,700 km², about the same size as Fiji.
Together they have 6.5 million people, about as many people as Bulgaria.
Counted as a country, Corsica (France) would rank 170th by area and 178th by population.

Side by side

	Lebanon	Corsica (France)
Is a	CountryAsia	RegionFrance
Area, measured	10,000 km²3,860 mi²	8,670 km²3,350 mi²
Official area	10,500 km²Wikidata	8,680 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	168th of 239worldwide	14th of 18in France
Population	6.1 millionWikidata, 2018	351,000Wikidata, 2022
Rank by population	113th of 237worldwide	16th of 18in France
Density	610 per km²	41 per km²
Capital	Beirut	Ajaccio
Latitude range	33°N to 35°N	41°N to 43°N

Population: Wikidata 2018 and Wikidata 2022. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Our measured 10,000 km² is 4.3% below Wikidata's official figure of 10,500 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.
Wikidata's official figure of 8,680 km² agrees with our measured area of 8,670 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 Corsica (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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