Nouvelle-Aquitaine is 1.99× the size of Denmark

Nouvelle-Aquitaine (region of France) covers about 85,000 km² (32,800 mi²) and Denmark (Europe) about 42,700 km² (16,500 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

85,000km²Nouvelle-Aquitaine
42,700km²Denmark

100 km

Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Denmark

What fits

Denmark is 50% of the size of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine is larger by 42,300 km² (16,300 mi²), which is 99% of the area of Denmark.
Measured in Belgiums: Nouvelle-Aquitaine is about 2.77, Denmark about 1.39.

How they differ

Nouvelle-Aquitaine also has the larger population: 6.1 million against 5.8 million, 1.05× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 136 in Denmark against 72 in Nouvelle-Aquitaine: Denmark is 1.90× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 1,380 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Nouvelle-Aquitaine at 45°N is drawn about 2.0× too large and Denmark at 56°N about 3.2×, so the map shows Nouvelle-Aquitaine as 1.26× the size of Denmark instead of 1.99×.
Together Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Denmark cover 128,000 km², close to the size of Nicaragua (129,000 km², 0.8% bigger).
The gap between them, 42,300 km², is about the size of Switzerland (41,400 km²).
At Denmark's density, Nouvelle-Aquitaine would have 11.6 million people (it has 6.1 million). At Nouvelle-Aquitaine's density, Denmark would have 3.1 million (it has 5.8 million).
Denmark's centre is 10.8° of latitude, about 1,200 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.
Denmark ranks 134th of 246 countries and territories by area.
Denmark lies about 11° of latitude (roughly 1,200 km) north of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Shared out evenly, each person in Nouvelle-Aquitaine would have about 13,900 m² and each person in Denmark about 7,330 m².
Laid side by side, Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Denmark would cover 128,000 km², about the same size as Nicaragua.
Together they have 11.9 million people, about as many people as Belgium.
Counted as a country, Nouvelle-Aquitaine would rank 115th by area and 113th by population.

Side by side

	Nouvelle-Aquitaine	Denmark
Is a	RegionFrance	CountryEurope
Area, measured	85,000 km²32,800 mi²	42,700 km²16,500 mi²
Official area	84,100 km²Wikidata	42,900 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	1st of 18in France	133rd of 239worldwide
Population	6.1 millionWikidata, 2022	5.8 millionWikidata, 2020
Rank by population	3rd of 18in France	115th of 237worldwide
Density	72 per km²	136 per km²
Capital	Bordeaux	Copenhagen
Latitude range	43°N to 47°N	55°N to 58°N

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2020. 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 42,900 km² agrees with our measured area of 42,700 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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