Uruguay is 3.69× the size of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Uruguay (South America) covers about 177,000 km² (68,500 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.

177,000km²Uruguay
48,000km²Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

100 km

Uruguay
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

What fits

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté fits inside Uruguay about 3.69 times by area.
Uruguay is larger by 129,000 km² (49,900 mi²), which is 269% of the area of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Measured in Belgiums: Uruguay is about 5.78, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté about 1.56.

How they differ

Uruguay also has the larger population: 3.4 million against 2.8 million, 1.23× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 58 in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté against 19 in Uruguay: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is 3.01× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 10,800 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Uruguay at 33°S is drawn about 1.4× too large and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté at 47°N about 2.2×, so the map shows Uruguay as 2.41× the size of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté instead of 3.69×.
Together Uruguay and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté cover 225,000 km², close to the size of Laos (228,000 km², 1.2% bigger).
The gap between them, 129,000 km², is about the size of Nicaragua (129,000 km²).
At Bourgogne-Franche-Comté's density, Uruguay would have 10.4 million people (it has 3.4 million). At Uruguay's density, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté would have 932,000 (it has 2.8 million).
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté's centre is 80.0° of latitude, about 8,900 km, farther north than Uruguay's.
Uruguay ranks 91st of 246 countries and territories by area.
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 80° of latitude (roughly 8,900 km) north of Uruguay, on the other side of the equator.
Shared out evenly, each person in Uruguay would have about 51,490 m² and each person in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté about 17,120 m².
Laid side by side, Uruguay and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté would cover 225,000 km², about the same size as Laos.
Together they have 6.2 million people, about as many people as the Republic of the Congo.
Counted as a country, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté would rank 132nd by area and 140th by population.

Side by side

	Uruguay	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Is a	CountrySouth America	RegionFrance
Area, measured	177,000 km²68,500 mi²	48,000 km²18,500 mi²
Official area	176,000 km²Wikidata	47,800 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	90th of 239worldwide	6th of 18in France
Population	3.4 millionWikidata, 2023	2.8 millionWikidata, 2022
Rank by population	134th of 237worldwide	11th of 18in France
Density	19 per km²	58 per km²
Capital	Montevideo	Dijon; Besançon
Latitude range	35°S to 30°S	46°N to 48°N

Population: Wikidata 2023 and Wikidata 2022. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 176,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 177,000 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 for the region; Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, 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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