Portugal is 1.08× the size of Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Portugal (Europe) covers about 91,400 km² (35,300 mi²) and Nouvelle-Aquitaine (region of France) about 85,000 km² (32,800 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

91,400km²Portugal
85,000km²Nouvelle-Aquitaine

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Portugal
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

What fits

Nouvelle-Aquitaine is 93% of the size of Portugal.
Portugal is larger by 6,400 km² (2,470 mi²), which is 7.5% of the area of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Measured in Belgiums: Portugal is about 2.98, Nouvelle-Aquitaine about 2.77.

How they differ

Portugal also has the larger population: 10.3 million against 6.1 million, 1.69× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 113 in Portugal against 72 in Nouvelle-Aquitaine: Portugal is 1.57× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 952 km apart.
On a standard web map Nouvelle-Aquitaine looks larger than Portugal: Portugal at 40°N is drawn about 1.7× too large and Nouvelle-Aquitaine at 45°N about 2.0×, so the map shows Nouvelle-Aquitaine as 1.11× the size of Portugal, when Portugal is 1.08× the size of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Together Portugal and Nouvelle-Aquitaine cover 176,000 km², close to the size of Uruguay (177,000 km², 0.5% bigger).
The gap between them, 6,400 km², is about the size of Palestine (6,070 km²).
At Nouvelle-Aquitaine's density, Portugal would have 6.6 million people (it has 10.3 million). At Portugal's density, Nouvelle-Aquitaine would have 9.6 million (it has 6.1 million).
Nouvelle-Aquitaine's centre is 5.6° of latitude, about 620 km, farther north than Portugal's.
Portugal ranks 112th of 246 countries and territories by area.
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.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine lies about 6° of latitude (roughly 621 km) north of Portugal.
Shared out evenly, each person in Portugal would have about 8,830 m² and each person in Nouvelle-Aquitaine about 13,900 m².
Laid side by side, Portugal and Nouvelle-Aquitaine would cover 176,000 km², about the same size as Uruguay.
Together they have 16.5 million people, about as many people as Senegal.
Counted as a country, Nouvelle-Aquitaine would rank 115th by area and 113th by population.

Side by side

	Portugal	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Is a	CountryEurope	RegionFrance
Area, measured	91,400 km²35,300 mi²	85,000 km²32,800 mi²
Official area	92,200 km²Wikidata	84,100 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	111th of 239worldwide	1st of 18in France
Population	10.3 millionWikidata, 2021	6.1 millionWikidata, 2022
Rank by population	90th of 237worldwide	3rd of 18in France
Density	113 per km²	72 per km²
Capital	Lisbon	Bordeaux
Latitude range	30°N to 42°N	43°N to 47°N

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

Wikidata's official figure of 92,200 km² agrees with our measured area of 91,400 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 84,100 km² agrees with our measured area of 85,000 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain for the region; Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, 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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