Sakon Nakhon is 1.10× the size of Corsica (France)

Sakon Nakhon (province of Thailand) covers about 9,560 km² (3,690 mi²) and Corsica (France) (region of France) about 8,670 km² (3,350 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

9,560km²Sakon Nakhon
8,670km²Corsica (France)

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Sakon Nakhon
Corsica (France)

What fits

Corsica (France) is 91% of the size of Sakon Nakhon.
Sakon Nakhon is larger by 890 km² (344 mi²), which is 10% of the area of Corsica (France).
Measured in Belgiums: Sakon Nakhon is about 0.31, Corsica (France) about 0.28.

How they differ

Sakon Nakhon also has the larger population: 1.1 million against 351,000, 3.27× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 120 in Sakon Nakhon against 41 in Corsica (France): Sakon Nakhon is 2.96× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 9,100 km apart.
On a standard web map Corsica (France) looks larger than Sakon Nakhon: Sakon Nakhon at 17°N is drawn about 1.1× too large and Corsica (France) at 42°N about 1.8×, so the map shows Corsica (France) as 1.50× the size of Sakon Nakhon, when Sakon Nakhon is 1.10× the size of Corsica (France).
Together Sakon Nakhon and Corsica (France) cover 18,200 km², close to the size of Fiji (18,900 km², 3.9% bigger).
The gap between them, 890 km², is about the size of Åland (942 km²).
At Corsica (France)'s density, Sakon Nakhon would have 387,000 people (it has 1.1 million). At Sakon Nakhon's density, Corsica (France) would have 1.0 million (it has 351,000).
Corsica (France)'s centre is 24.8° of latitude, about 2,750 km, farther north than Sakon Nakhon's.
Sakon Nakhon is the 20th largest of the 77 provinces of Thailand and covers 1.9% of its area; it is the 41st most densely populated of them.
Corsica (France) is the 14th largest of the 18 regions of France and covers 1.4% of its area; it is the 17th most densely populated of them.
Corsica (France) lies about 25° of latitude (roughly 2,750 km) north of Sakon Nakhon.
Shared out evenly, each person in Sakon Nakhon would have about 8,330 m² and each person in Corsica (France) about 24,670 m².
Laid side by side, Sakon Nakhon and Corsica (France) would cover 18,200 km², 96% of the size of Fiji.
Together they have 1.5 million people, 1.07× as many people as East Timor.

Side by side

	Sakon Nakhon	Corsica (France)
Is a	ProvinceThailand	RegionFrance
Area, measured	9,560 km²3,690 mi²	8,670 km²3,350 mi²
Official area	9,610 km²Wikidata	8,680 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	20th of 77in Thailand	14th of 18in France
Population	1.1 millionWikidata, 2020	351,000Wikidata, 2022
Rank by population	18th of 77in Thailand	16th of 18in France
Density	120 per km²	41 per km²
Capital	Sakon Nakhon	Ajaccio
Latitude range	17°N to 18°N	41°N to 43°N

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

Wikidata's official figure of 9,610 km² agrees with our measured area of 9,560 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 8,680 km² agrees with our measured area of 8,670 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 Corsica (France) 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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