Nova Scotia is 1.76× the size of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur

Nova Scotia (province of Canada) covers about 55,100 km² (21,300 mi²) and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (region of France) about 31,300 km² (12,100 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

55,100km²Nova Scotia
31,300km²Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur

100 km

Nova Scotia
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur

What fits

Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur is 57% of the size of Nova Scotia.
Nova Scotia is larger by 23,800 km² (9,170 mi²), which is 76% of the area of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
Measured in Belgiums: Nova Scotia is about 1.80, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur about 1.02.

How they differ

Nova Scotia is larger, but Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur has the larger population: 5.2 million against 969,000, 5.33× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 165 in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur against 18 in Nova Scotia: Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur is 9.38× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 5,320 km apart.
Together Nova Scotia and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur cover 86,500 km², close to the size of Azerbaijan (86,200 km², 0.2% smaller).
The gap between them, 23,800 km², is about the size of Rwanda (25,300 km²).
At Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur's density, Nova Scotia would have 9.1 million people (it has 969,000). At Nova Scotia's density, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur would have 551,000 (it has 5.2 million).
Nova Scotia's centre is 1.2° of latitude, about 130 km, farther north than Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur's.
Nova Scotia is the 12th largest of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and covers 0.6% of its area; it is the 2nd most densely populated of them.
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur is the 10th largest of the 18 regions of France and covers 4.9% of its area; it is the 7th most densely populated of them.
Both lie at about the same latitude, 45°N and 44°N.
Shared out evenly, each person in Nova Scotia would have about 56,850 m² and each person in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur about 6,060 m².
Laid side by side, Nova Scotia and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur would cover 86,500 km², about the same size as Azerbaijan.
Together they have 6.1 million people, about as many people as the Republic of the Congo.

Side by side

	Nova Scotia	Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
Is a	ProvinceCanada	RegionFrance
Area, measured	55,100 km²21,300 mi²	31,300 km²12,100 mi²
Official area	55,300 km²Wikidata	31,400 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	12th of 13in Canada	10th of 18in France
Population	969,000Wikidata, 2021	5.2 millionWikidata, 2022
Rank by population	7th of 13in Canada	7th of 18in France
Density	18 per km²	165 per km²
Capital	Halifax	Marseille
Latitude range	43°N to 47°N	43°N to 45°N

Population: Wikidata 2021 and Wikidata 2022. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 55,300 km² agrees with our measured area of 55,100 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 31,400 km² agrees with our measured area of 31,300 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 Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur 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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