Nouvelle-Aquitaine is 1.01× the size of Austria

Nouvelle-Aquitaine (region of France) covers about 85,000 km² (32,800 mi²) and Austria (Europe) about 84,000 km² (32,400 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

85,000km²Nouvelle-Aquitaine
84,000km²Austria

100 km

Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Austria

What fits

Austria is 99% of the size of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine is larger by 997 km² (385 mi²), which is 1.2% of the area of Austria.
Measured in Belgiums: Nouvelle-Aquitaine is about 2.77, Austria about 2.74.

How they differ

Nouvelle-Aquitaine is larger, but Austria has the larger population: 9.0 million against 6.1 million, 1.47× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 107 in Austria against 72 in Nouvelle-Aquitaine: Austria is 1.49× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 1,100 km apart.
On a standard web map Austria looks larger than Nouvelle-Aquitaine: Nouvelle-Aquitaine at 45°N is drawn about 2.0× too large and Austria at 48°N about 2.2×, so the map shows Austria as 1.08× the size of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, when Nouvelle-Aquitaine is 1.01× the size of Austria.
Together Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Austria cover 169,000 km², close to the size of Somaliland (167,000 km², 0.9% smaller).
The gap between them, 997 km², is about the size of Hong Kong (1,040 km²).
At Austria's density, Nouvelle-Aquitaine would have 9.1 million people (it has 6.1 million). At Nouvelle-Aquitaine's density, Austria would have 6.0 million (it has 9.0 million).
Austria's centre is 2.4° of latitude, about 270 km, farther north than Nouvelle-Aquitaine's.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine is the largest of the 18 regions of France and covers 13% of its area; it is the 14th most densely populated of them.
Austria ranks 116th of 246 countries and territories by area.
Austria lies about 2° of latitude (roughly 268 km) north of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Shared out evenly, each person in Nouvelle-Aquitaine would have about 13,900 m² and each person in Austria about 9,350 m².
Laid side by side, Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Austria would cover 169,000 km², 95% of the size of Uruguay.
Together they have 15.1 million people, about as many people as Zimbabwe.
Counted as a country, Nouvelle-Aquitaine would rank 115th by area and 113th by population.

Side by side

	Nouvelle-Aquitaine	Austria
Is a	RegionFrance	CountryEurope
Area, measured	85,000 km²32,800 mi²	84,000 km²32,400 mi²
Official area	84,100 km²Wikidata	83,900 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	1st of 18in France	115th of 239worldwide
Population	6.1 millionWikidata, 2022	9.0 millionWikidata, 2022
Rank by population	3rd of 18in France	98th of 237worldwide
Density	72 per km²	107 per km²
Capital	Bordeaux	Vienna
Latitude range	43°N to 47°N	46°N to 49°N

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

Wikidata's official figure of 84,100 km² agrees with our measured area of 85,000 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 83,900 km² agrees with our measured area of 84,000 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 Nouvelle-Aquitaine 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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