Umbria is 1.01× the size of Hyogo

Umbria (region of Italy) covers about 8,500 km² (3,280 mi²) and Hyogo (prefecture of Japan) about 8,380 km² (3,240 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

8,500km²Umbria
8,380km²Hyogo

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Umbria
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What fits

Hyogo is 99% of the size of Umbria.
Umbria is larger by 118 km² (45.5 mi²), which is 1.4% of the area of Hyogo.
Measured in Belgiums: Umbria is about 0.28, Hyogo about 0.27.

How they differ

Umbria is larger, but Hyogo has the larger population: 5.5 million against 882,000, 6.18× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 651 in Hyogo against 104 in Umbria: Hyogo is 6.27× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 9,560 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Umbria at 43°N is drawn about 1.9× too large and Hyogo at 35°N about 1.5×, so the map shows Umbria as 1.27× the size of Hyogo instead of 1.01×.
Together Umbria and Hyogo cover 16,900 km², close to the size of Eswatini (17,100 km², 1.4% bigger).
The gap between them, 118 km², is about the size of Jersey (119 km²).
At Hyogo's density, Umbria would have 5.5 million people (it has 882,000). At Umbria's density, Hyogo would have 870,000 (it has 5.5 million).
Umbria's centre is 7.9° of latitude, about 880 km, farther north than Hyogo's.
Umbria is the 16th largest of the 20 regions of Italy and covers 2.8% of its area; it is the 15th most densely populated of them.
Hyogo is the 11th largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 2.2% of its area; it is the 9th most densely populated of them.
Umbria lies about 8° of latitude (roughly 881 km) north of Hyogo.
Shared out evenly, each person in Umbria would have about 9,640 m² and each person in Hyogo about 1,540 m².
Laid side by side, Umbria and Hyogo would cover 16,900 km², about the same size as Eswatini.
Together they have 6.3 million people, about as many people as Bulgaria.

Side by side

	Umbria	Hyogo
Is a	RegionItaly	PrefectureJapan
Area, measured	8,500 km²3,280 mi²	8,380 km²3,240 mi²
Official area	8,460 km²Wikidata	8,400 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	16th of 20in Italy	11th of 47in Japan
Population	882,000Wikidata, 2019	5.5 millionWikidata, 2021
Rank by population	17th of 20in Italy	7th of 47in Japan
Density	104 per km²	651 per km²
Capital	Perugia	Kobe
Latitude range	42°N to 44°N	34°N to 36°N

Population: Wikidata 2019 and Wikidata 2021. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 8,460 km² agrees with our measured area of 8,500 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 8,400 km² agrees with our measured area of 8,380 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 Umbria is the provinces 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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