Tasmania (Australia) is 1.73× the size of Centre-Val de Loire

Tasmania (Australia) (state of Australia) covers about 68,100 km² (26,300 mi²) and Centre-Val de Loire (region of France) about 39,400 km² (15,200 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

68,100km²Tasmania (Australia)
39,400km²Centre-Val de Loire

100 km

Tasmania (Australia)
Centre-Val de Loire

What fits

Centre-Val de Loire is 58% of the size of Tasmania (Australia).
Tasmania (Australia) is larger by 28,800 km² (11,100 mi²), which is 73% of the area of Centre-Val de Loire.
Measured in Belgiums: Tasmania (Australia) is about 2.22, Centre-Val de Loire about 1.28.

How they differ

Tasmania (Australia) is larger, but Centre-Val de Loire has the larger population: 2.6 million against 540,000, 4.78× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 66 in Centre-Val de Loire against 7.9 in Tasmania (Australia): Centre-Val de Loire is 8.28× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 17,200 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Tasmania (Australia) at 42°S is drawn about 1.8× too large and Centre-Val de Loire at 47°N about 2.2×, so the map shows Tasmania (Australia) as 1.43× the size of Centre-Val de Loire instead of 1.73×.
Together Tasmania (Australia) and Centre-Val de Loire cover 107,000 km², close to the size of Guatemala (109,000 km², 1.2% bigger).
The gap between them, 28,800 km², is about the size of Albania (28,300 km²).
At Centre-Val de Loire's density, Tasmania (Australia) would have 4.5 million people (it has 540,000). At Tasmania (Australia)'s density, Centre-Val de Loire would have 312,000 (it has 2.6 million).
Centre-Val de Loire's centre is 89.4° of latitude, about 9,940 km, farther north than Tasmania (Australia)'s.
Tasmania (Australia) is the 7th largest of the 8 states and territories of Australia and covers 0.9% of its area; it is the 4th most densely populated of them.
Centre-Val de Loire is the 7th largest of the 18 regions of France and covers 6.2% of its area; it is the 15th most densely populated of them.
Centre-Val de Loire lies about 89° of latitude (roughly 9,940 km) north of Tasmania (Australia), on the other side of the equator.
Shared out evenly, each person in Tasmania (Australia) would have about 126,230 m² and each person in Centre-Val de Loire about 15,240 m².
Laid side by side, Tasmania (Australia) and Centre-Val de Loire would cover 107,000 km², about the same size as Guatemala.
Together they have 3.1 million people, 1.07× as many people as Armenia.

Side by side

	Tasmania (Australia)	Centre-Val de Loire
Is a	StateAustralia	RegionFrance
Area, measured	68,100 km²26,300 mi²	39,400 km²15,200 mi²
Official area	68,400 km²Wikidata	39,200 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	7th of 8in Australia	7th of 18in France
Population	540,000Wikidata, 2020	2.6 millionWikidata, 2022
Rank by population	6th of 8in Australia	12th of 18in France
Density	7.9 per km²	66 per km²
Capital	Hobart	Orléans
Latitude range	44°S to 40°S	46°N to 49°N

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

Wikidata's official figure of 68,400 km² agrees with our measured area of 68,100 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 39,200 km² agrees with our measured area of 39,400 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 Centre-Val de 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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