Nouvelle-Aquitaine is 4.04× the size of Hesse

Nouvelle-Aquitaine (region of France) covers about 85,000 km² (32,800 mi²) and Hesse (state of Germany) about 21,000 km² (8,110 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

85,000km²Nouvelle-Aquitaine
21,000km²Hesse

100 km

Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Hesse

What fits

Hesse fits inside Nouvelle-Aquitaine about 4.04 times by area.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine is larger by 64,000 km² (24,700 mi²), which is 304% of the area of Hesse.
Measured in Belgiums: Nouvelle-Aquitaine is about 2.77, Hesse about 0.69.

How they differ

Nouvelle-Aquitaine is larger, but Hesse has the larger population: 6.2 million against 6.1 million, 1.02× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 295 in Hesse against 72 in Nouvelle-Aquitaine: Hesse is 4.11× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 891 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Nouvelle-Aquitaine at 45°N is drawn about 2.0× too large and Hesse at 51°N about 2.5×, so the map shows Nouvelle-Aquitaine as 3.28× the size of Hesse instead of 4.04×.
Together Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Hesse cover 106,000 km², close to the size of Guatemala (109,000 km², 2.6% bigger).
The gap between them, 64,000 km², is about the size of Latvia (64,600 km²).
At Hesse's density, Nouvelle-Aquitaine would have 25.1 million people (it has 6.1 million). At Nouvelle-Aquitaine's density, Hesse would have 1.5 million (it has 6.2 million).
Hesse's centre is 5.4° of latitude, about 600 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.
Hesse is the 7th largest of the 16 states of Germany and covers 5.9% of its area; it is the 7th most densely populated of them.
Hesse lies about 5° of latitude (roughly 602 km) north of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Shared out evenly, each person in Nouvelle-Aquitaine would have about 13,900 m² and each person in Hesse about 3,390 m².
Laid side by side, Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Hesse would cover 106,000 km², about the same size as Guatemala.
Together they have 12.3 million people, about as many people as Bolivia.

Side by side

	Nouvelle-Aquitaine	Hesse
Is a	RegionFrance	StateGermany
Area, measured	85,000 km²32,800 mi²	21,000 km²8,110 mi²
Official area	84,100 km²Wikidata	21,100 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	1st of 18in France	7th of 16in Germany
Population	6.1 millionWikidata, 2022	6.2 millionWikidata, 2022
Rank by population	3rd of 18in France	5th of 16in Germany
Density	72 per km²	295 per km²
Capital	Bordeaux	Wiesbaden
Latitude range	43°N to 47°N	49°N to 52°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 21,100 km² agrees with our measured area of 21,000 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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