Pays de la Loire is 1.06× the size of Guanajuato

Pays de la Loire (region of France) covers about 32,100 km² (12,400 mi²) and Guanajuato (state of Mexico) about 30,400 km² (11,700 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

32,100km²Pays de la Loire
30,400km²Guanajuato

50 km

Pays de la Loire
Guanajuato

What fits

Guanajuato is 95% of the size of Pays de la Loire.
Pays de la Loire is larger by 1,710 km² (661 mi²), which is 5.6% of the area of Guanajuato.
Measured in Belgiums: Pays de la Loire is about 1.05, Guanajuato about 0.99.

How they differ

Pays de la Loire is larger, but Guanajuato has the larger population: 5.9 million against 3.9 million, 1.51× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 192 in Guanajuato against 121 in Pays de la Loire: Guanajuato is 1.59× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 9,040 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Pays de la Loire at 47°N is drawn about 2.2× too large and Guanajuato at 21°N about 1.1×, so the map shows Pays de la Loire as 2.02× the size of Guanajuato instead of 1.06×.
Together Pays de la Loire and Guanajuato cover 62,600 km², close to the size of Latvia (64,600 km², 3.2% bigger).
The gap between them, 1,710 km², is about the size of Comoros (1,670 km²).
At Guanajuato's density, Pays de la Loire would have 6.2 million people (it has 3.9 million). At Pays de la Loire's density, Guanajuato would have 3.7 million (it has 5.9 million).
Pays de la Loire's centre is 26.6° of latitude, about 2,960 km, farther north than Guanajuato'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.
Guanajuato is the 22nd largest of the 32 states of Mexico and covers 1.6% of its area; it is the 6th most densely populated of them.
Pays de la Loire lies about 27° of latitude (roughly 2,960 km) north of Guanajuato.
Shared out evenly, each person in Pays de la Loire would have about 8,280 m² and each person in Guanajuato about 5,200 m².
Laid side by side, Pays de la Loire and Guanajuato would cover 62,600 km², 97% of the size of Latvia.
Together they have 9.7 million people, about as many people as Hungary.

Side by side

	Pays de la Loire	Guanajuato
Is a	RegionFrance	StateMexico
Area, measured	32,100 km²12,400 mi²	30,400 km²11,700 mi²
Official area	32,100 km²Wikidata	30,600 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	8th of 18in France	22nd of 32in Mexico
Population	3.9 millionWikidata, 2022	5.9 millionWikidata, 2015
Rank by population	8th of 18in France	6th of 32in Mexico
Density	121 per km²	192 per km²
Capital	Nantes	Guanajuato
Latitude range	46°N to 49°N	20°N to 22°N

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2015. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 32,100 km² agrees with our measured area of 32,100 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 30,600 km² agrees with our measured area of 30,400 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 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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