Nouvelle-Aquitaine is 2.46× the size of Puebla

Nouvelle-Aquitaine (region of France) covers about 85,000 km² (32,800 mi²) and Puebla (state of Mexico) about 34,600 km² (13,400 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

85,000km²Nouvelle-Aquitaine
34,600km²Puebla

100 km

Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Puebla

What fits

Puebla fits inside Nouvelle-Aquitaine about 2.46 times by area.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine is larger by 50,400 km² (19,500 mi²), which is 146% of the area of Puebla.
Measured in Belgiums: Nouvelle-Aquitaine is about 2.77, Puebla about 1.13.

How they differ

Nouvelle-Aquitaine is larger, but Puebla has the larger population: 6.2 million against 6.1 million, 1.01× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 178 in Puebla against 72 in Nouvelle-Aquitaine: Puebla is 2.48× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 9,130 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Nouvelle-Aquitaine at 45°N is drawn about 2.0× too large and Puebla at 19°N about 1.1×, so the map shows Nouvelle-Aquitaine as 4.42× the size of Puebla instead of 2.46×.
Together Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Puebla cover 120,000 km², close to the size of Malawi (119,000 km², 0.2% smaller).
The gap between them, 50,400 km², is about the size of Costa Rica (51,200 km²).
At Puebla's density, Nouvelle-Aquitaine would have 15.2 million people (it has 6.1 million). At Nouvelle-Aquitaine's density, Puebla would have 2.5 million (it has 6.2 million).
Nouvelle-Aquitaine's centre is 26.2° of latitude, about 2,910 km, farther north than Puebla'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.
Puebla is the 21st largest of the 32 states of Mexico and covers 1.8% of its area; it is the 7th most densely populated of them.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine lies about 26° of latitude (roughly 2,910 km) north of Puebla.
Shared out evenly, each person in Nouvelle-Aquitaine would have about 13,900 m² and each person in Puebla about 5,610 m².
Laid side by side, Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Puebla would cover 120,000 km², about the same size as Malawi.
Together they have 12.3 million people, about as many people as Bolivia.

Side by side

	Nouvelle-Aquitaine	Puebla
Is a	RegionFrance	StateMexico
Area, measured	85,000 km²32,800 mi²	34,600 km²13,400 mi²
Official area	84,100 km²Wikidata	34,300 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	1st of 18in France	21st of 32in Mexico
Population	6.1 millionWikidata, 2022	6.2 millionWikidata, 2015
Rank by population	3rd of 18in France	5th of 32in Mexico
Density	72 per km²	178 per km²
Capital	Bordeaux	Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza
Latitude range	43°N to 47°N	18°N to 21°N

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2015. 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 34,300 km² agrees with our measured area of 34,600 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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