Nouvelle-Aquitaine is 1.21× the size of Bavaria

Nouvelle-Aquitaine (region of France) covers about 85,000 km² (32,800 mi²) and Bavaria (state of Germany) about 70,000 km² (27,000 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

85,000km²Nouvelle-Aquitaine
70,000km²Bavaria

100 km

Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Bavaria

What fits

Bavaria is 82% of the size of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine is larger by 15,000 km² (5,780 mi²), which is 21% of the area of Bavaria.
Measured in Belgiums: Nouvelle-Aquitaine is about 2.77, Bavaria about 2.28.

How they differ

Nouvelle-Aquitaine is larger, but Bavaria has the larger population: 13.0 million against 6.1 million, 2.13× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 186 in Bavaria against 72 in Nouvelle-Aquitaine: Bavaria is 2.59× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 946 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Nouvelle-Aquitaine at 45°N is drawn about 2.0× too large and Bavaria at 49°N about 2.3×, so the map shows Nouvelle-Aquitaine as 1.05× the size of Bavaria instead of 1.21×.
Together Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Bavaria cover 155,000 km², close to the size of Tunisia (157,000 km², 1.0% bigger).
The gap between them, 15,000 km², is about the size of East Timor (15,100 km²).
At Bavaria's density, Nouvelle-Aquitaine would have 15.8 million people (it has 6.1 million). At Nouvelle-Aquitaine's density, Bavaria would have 5.0 million (it has 13.0 million).
Bavaria's centre is 3.7° of latitude, about 420 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.
Bavaria is the largest of the 16 states of Germany and covers 20% of its area; it is the 11th most densely populated of them.
Bavaria lies about 4° of latitude (roughly 417 km) north of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Shared out evenly, each person in Nouvelle-Aquitaine would have about 13,900 m² and each person in Bavaria about 5,370 m².
Laid side by side, Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Bavaria would cover 155,000 km², about the same size as Tunisia.
Together they have 19.2 million people, about as many people as Romania.

Side by side

	Nouvelle-Aquitaine	Bavaria
Is a	RegionFrance	StateGermany
Area, measured	85,000 km²32,800 mi²	70,000 km²27,000 mi²
Official area	84,100 km²Wikidata	70,600 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	1st of 18in France	1st of 16in Germany
Population	6.1 millionWikidata, 2022	13.0 millionWikidata, 2022
Rank by population	3rd of 18in France	2nd of 16in Germany
Density	72 per km²	186 per km²
Capital	Bordeaux	Munich
Latitude range	43°N to 47°N	47°N to 51°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 70,600 km² agrees with our measured area of 70,000 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 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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