Pays de la Loire is 1.41× the size of Chiang Mai

Pays de la Loire (region of France) covers about 32,100 km² (12,400 mi²) and Chiang Mai (province of Thailand) about 22,800 km² (8,790 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

32,100km²Pays de la Loire
22,800km²Chiang Mai

50 km

Pays de la Loire
Chiang Mai

What fits

Chiang Mai is 71% of the size of Pays de la Loire.
Pays de la Loire is larger by 9,370 km² (3,620 mi²), which is 41% of the area of Chiang Mai.
Measured in Belgiums: Pays de la Loire is about 1.05, Chiang Mai about 0.74.

How they differ

Pays de la Loire also has the larger population: 3.9 million against 1.8 million, 2.17× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 121 in Pays de la Loire against 78 in Chiang Mai: Pays de la Loire is 1.54× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 9,170 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Pays de la Loire at 47°N is drawn about 2.2× too large and Chiang Mai at 19°N about 1.1×, so the map shows Pays de la Loire as 2.77× the size of Chiang Mai instead of 1.41×.
Together Pays de la Loire and Chiang Mai cover 54,900 km², close to the size of Croatia (55,000 km², 0.2% bigger).
The gap between them, 9,370 km², is about the size of Lebanon (10,000 km²).
At Chiang Mai's density, Pays de la Loire would have 2.5 million people (it has 3.9 million). At Pays de la Loire's density, Chiang Mai would have 2.7 million (it has 1.8 million).
Pays de la Loire's centre is 28.7° of latitude, about 3,190 km, farther north than Chiang Mai's.
Pays de la Loire is the 8th largest of the 18 regions of France and covers 5.0% of its area; it is the 9th most densely populated of them.
Chiang Mai is the largest of the 77 provinces of Thailand and covers 4.4% of its area; it is the 64th most densely populated of them.
Pays de la Loire lies about 29° of latitude (roughly 3,190 km) north of Chiang Mai.
Shared out evenly, each person in Pays de la Loire would have about 8,280 m² and each person in Chiang Mai about 12,750 m².
Laid side by side, Pays de la Loire and Chiang Mai would cover 54,900 km², about the same size as Croatia.
Together they have 5.7 million people, about as many people as Finland.

Side by side

	Pays de la Loire	Chiang Mai
Is a	RegionFrance	ProvinceThailand
Area, measured	32,100 km²12,400 mi²	22,800 km²8,790 mi²
Official area	32,100 km²Wikidata	22,300 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	8th of 18in France	1st of 77in Thailand
Population	3.9 millionWikidata, 2022	1.8 millionWikidata, 2020
Rank by population	8th of 18in France	5th of 77in Thailand
Density	121 per km²	78 per km²
Capital	Nantes	Chiang Mai
Latitude range	46°N to 49°N	17°N to 20°N

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2020. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 32,100 km² agrees with our measured area of 32,100 km², to within 2%.
Our measured 22,800 km² is 2.0% above Wikidata's official figure of 22,300 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain. The outline of Pays de la Loire 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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