New Brunswick is 1.03× the size of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

New Brunswick (province of Canada) covers about 72,800 km² (28,100 mi²) and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (region of France) about 70,900 km² (27,400 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

72,800km²New Brunswick
70,900km²Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

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New Brunswick
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

What fits

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is 97% of the size of New Brunswick.
New Brunswick is larger by 1,860 km² (718 mi²), which is 2.6% of the area of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Measured in Belgiums: New Brunswick is about 2.37, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes about 2.31.

How they differ

New Brunswick is larger, but Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes has the larger population: 8.2 million against 776,000, 10.5× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 115 in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes against 11 in New Brunswick: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is 10.8× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 5,280 km apart.
Together New Brunswick and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes cover 144,000 km², close to the size of Suriname (145,000 km², 1.0% bigger).
The gap between them, 1,860 km², is about the size of Mauritius (2,000 km²).
At Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes's density, New Brunswick would have 8.4 million people (it has 776,000). At New Brunswick's density, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes would have 756,000 (it has 8.2 million).
New Brunswick's centre is 1.1° of latitude, about 120 km, farther north than Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes's.
New Brunswick is the 11th largest of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and covers 0.7% of its area; it is the 4th most densely populated of them.
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is the 4th largest of the 18 regions of France and covers 11% of its area; it is the 10th most densely populated of them.
Both lie at about the same latitude, 47°N and 46°N.
Shared out evenly, each person in New Brunswick would have about 93,840 m² and each person in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes about 8,690 m².
Laid side by side, New Brunswick and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes would cover 144,000 km², about the same size as Suriname.
Together they have 8.9 million people, about as many people as Papua New Guinea.

Side by side

	New Brunswick	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Is a	ProvinceCanada	RegionFrance
Area, measured	72,800 km²28,100 mi²	70,900 km²27,400 mi²
Official area	72,900 km²Wikidata	69,700 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	11th of 13in Canada	4th of 18in France
Population	776,000Wikidata, 2021	8.2 millionWikidata, 2022
Rank by population	8th of 13in Canada	2nd of 18in France
Density	11 per km²	115 per km²
Capital	–	Lyon
Latitude range	45°N to 48°N	44°N to 47°N

Population: Wikidata 2021 and Wikidata 2022. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 72,900 km² agrees with our measured area of 72,800 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 69,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 70,900 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 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 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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