Pará is 17.4× the size of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Pará (state of Brazil) covers about 1,231,000 km² (475,000 mi²) and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (region of France) about 70,900 km² (27,400 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

1,231,000km²Pará
70,900km²Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

500 km

Pará
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

What fits

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes fits inside Pará about 17.4 times by area.
Pará is larger by 1,160,000 km² (448,000 mi²), which is 1,635% of the area of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Measured in Belgiums: Pará is about 40.1, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes about 2.31.

How they differ

Pará is larger, but Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes has the larger population: 8.2 million against 8.1 million, 1.01× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 115 in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes against 6.6 in Pará: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is 17.4× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 7,910 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Pará at 4°S is drawn about 1.0× too large and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes at 46°N about 2.0×, so the map shows Pará as 8.56× the size of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes instead of 17.4×.
Together Pará and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes cover 1,302,000 km², close to the size of Peru (1,290,000 km², 0.9% smaller).
The gap between them, 1,160,000 km², is about the size of Niger (1,181,000 km²).
At Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes's density, Pará would have 141.7 million people (it has 8.1 million). At Pará's density, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes would have 468,000 (it has 8.2 million).
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes's centre is 49.6° of latitude, about 5,510 km, farther north than Pará's.
Pará is the 2nd largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 15% of its area; it is the 21st most densely populated of them.
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is the 4th largest of the 18 regions of France and covers 11% of its area; it is the 10th most densely populated of them.
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes lies about 50° of latitude (roughly 5,510 km) north of Pará, on the other side of the equator.
Shared out evenly, each person in Pará would have about 151,560 m² and each person in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes about 8,690 m².
Laid side by side, Pará and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes would cover 1,302,000 km², about the same size as Peru.
Together they have 16.3 million people, 96% as many people as Senegal.

Side by side

	Pará	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Is a	StateBrazil	RegionFrance
Area, measured	1,231,000 km²475,000 mi²	70,900 km²27,400 mi²
Official area	1,246,000 km²Wikidata	69,700 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	2nd of 27in Brazil	4th of 18in France
Population	8.1 millionWikidata, 2022	8.2 millionWikidata, 2022
Rank by population	9th of 27in Brazil	2nd of 18in France
Density	6.6 per km²	115 per km²
Capital	Belém	Lyon
Latitude range	10°S to 3°N	44°N to 47°N

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

Wikidata's official figure of 1,246,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,231,000 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 69,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 70,900 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 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 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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