Region of France

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is a region of France. It covers about 70,900 km² (27,400 mi²), the 4th largest of the 18 regions in Natural Earth’s file for France, and about the same size as the United Arab Emirates. About 8.2 million people live there (Wikidata, 2022).

In area1.00×the size ofUnited Arab Emirates71,100 km² In people0.98×as many people asHonduras8.3 million

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Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Facts

Area, measured	70,900 km²27,400 mi²
Official area	69,700 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure
Share of France	11%of the area of the 18 regions
Rank by area	4th of 18regions of France
Population	8.2 millionWikidata, 2022
Density	115 people per km²
Capital	Lyon
Latitude range	44°N to 47°N
Type	RegionFR-ARA

What the numbers say about Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes covers 11% of the area of France and ranks 2nd of 18 by population, against 4th by area.
It would take 8.98 regions the size of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes to cover France.
The largest, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, is 1.20× the size of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes; the smallest, Mayotte, is 0.6% of it.
Closest in size within France: Occitania (73,500 km², 1.04×) and French Guiana (83,200 km², 1.17×).
Counted as a country, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes would be larger than 119 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 121st by area, between the United Arab Emirates (71,100 km²) and Georgia (69,600 km²).
With 8.2 million people it would rank 101st of 238 by population.
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes has 115 people per km², about the density of Egypt, which has 114 per km².
That makes Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes the 10th most densely populated of the 18 regions, 1.08× the average for France (107 per km²).
On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 46°N is drawn about 2.0× too large in area, so Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes looks bigger there than it is.
Laid out flat, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes stretches about 298 km north to south and 400 km east to west.
Wikidata's official figure of 69,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 70,900 km², to within 2%.

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About as many people as

Beside the regions of other countries

The closest region by area and by people in each of the other countries that have regional pages here, within a factor of 2. All 395 regions side by side.

Where Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ranks

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is the 4th largest of the 18 regions of France.

Ranked within France

All 18 regions of France, matched to countries

Compare Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Sources and method

Outline: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain: the 12 departments of this region in the file, joined along their shared borders.
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline, shown rounded. The region’s whole area is counted, every island included.
Official figures: Area, population and capital from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-12
Population: Wikidata, 2022. France’s units share the 2022 figures where Wikidata has them; the year is shown wherever the figure is.
Matching: Countries come from Natural Earth’s country file. Places whose status is contested and dependencies are never used as automatic matches. A region under 2,500 km² is matched against the small countries and island nations.
Data built: 2026-11-12

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