Sonora is 3.73× the size of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Sonora (state of Mexico) covers about 179,000 km² (69,200 mi²) and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (region of France) about 48,000 km² (18,500 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

179,000km²Sonora
48,000km²Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

200 km

Sonora
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

What fits

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté fits inside Sonora about 3.73 times by area.
Sonora is larger by 131,000 km² (50,600 mi²), which is 273% of the area of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Measured in Belgiums: Sonora is about 5.84, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté about 1.56.

How they differ

Sonora also has the larger population: 2.9 million against 2.8 million, 1.02× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 58 in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté against 16 in Sonora: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is 3.67× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 9,310 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Sonora at 30°N is drawn about 1.3× too large and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté at 47°N about 2.2×, so the map shows Sonora as 2.28× the size of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté instead of 3.73×.
Together Sonora and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté cover 227,000 km², close to the size of Laos (228,000 km², 0.4% bigger).
The gap between them, 131,000 km², is about the size of Greece (131,000 km²).
At Bourgogne-Franche-Comté's density, Sonora would have 10.5 million people (it has 2.9 million). At Sonora's density, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté would have 764,000 (it has 2.8 million).
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté's centre is 17.6° of latitude, about 1,950 km, farther north than Sonora's.
Sonora is the 2nd largest of the 32 states of Mexico and covers 9.2% of its area; it is the 29th most densely populated of them.
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is the 6th largest of the 18 regions of France and covers 7.5% of its area; it is the 16th most densely populated of them.
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté lies about 18° of latitude (roughly 1,950 km) north of Sonora.
Shared out evenly, each person in Sonora would have about 62,860 m² and each person in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté about 17,120 m².
Laid side by side, Sonora and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté would cover 227,000 km², about the same size as Laos.
Together they have 5.7 million people, about as many people as Finland.

Side by side

	Sonora	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Is a	StateMexico	RegionFrance
Area, measured	179,000 km²69,200 mi²	48,000 km²18,500 mi²
Official area	180,000 km²Wikidata	47,800 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	2nd of 32in Mexico	6th of 18in France
Population	2.9 millionWikidata, 2015	2.8 millionWikidata, 2022
Rank by population	18th of 32in Mexico	11th of 18in France
Density	16 per km²	58 per km²
Capital	Hermosillo	Dijon; Besançon
Latitude range	26°N to 32°N	46°N to 48°N

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

Wikidata's official figure of 180,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 179,000 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 47,800 km² agrees with our measured area of 48,000 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 Bourgogne-Franche-Comté 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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