Region of France

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is a region of France. It covers about 48,000 km² (18,500 mi²), the 6th largest of the 18 regions in Natural Earth’s file for France, and about the same size as Dominican Republic. About 2.8 million people live there (Wikidata, 2022).

In area0.99×the size ofDominican Republic48,400 km² In people1.00×as many people asAlbania2.8 million

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Dominican Republic
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Facts

Area, measured	48,000 km²18,500 mi²
Official area	47,800 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure
Share of France	7.5%of the area of the 18 regions
Rank by area	6th of 18regions of France
Population	2.8 millionWikidata, 2022
Density	58 people per km²
Capital	Dijon; Besançon
Latitude range	46°N to 48°N
Type	RegionFR-BFC

What the numbers say about Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté covers 7.5% of the area of France and ranks 11th of 18 by population, against 6th by area.
It would take 13.3 regions the size of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté to cover France.
The largest, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, is 1.77× the size of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté; the smallest, Mayotte, is 0.8% of it.
Closest in size within France: Grand Est (57,400 km², 1.20×) and Centre-Val de Loire (39,400 km², 1.22×).
Counted as a country, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté would be larger than 108 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 132nd by area, between Dominican Republic (48,400 km²) and Estonia (45,800 km²).
With 2.8 million people it would rank 140th of 238 by population.
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté has 58 people per km², about the density of Bulgaria, which has 57 per km².
That makes Bourgogne-Franche-Comté the 16th most densely populated of the 18 regions, 55% of the average for France (107 per km²).
On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 47°N is drawn about 2.2× too large in area, so Bourgogne-Franche-Comté looks bigger there than it is.
Laid out flat, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté stretches about 250 km north to south and 324 km east to west.
Wikidata's official figure of 47,800 km² agrees with our measured area of 48,000 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 Bourgogne-Franche-Comté ranks

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is the 6th largest of the 18 regions of France.

Ranked within France

All 18 regions of France, matched to countries

Compare Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Sources and method

Outline: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain: the 8 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

Full method