Region of France

Centre-Val de Loire

Centre-Val de Loire is a region of France. It covers about 39,400 km² (15,200 mi²), the 7th largest of the 18 regions in Natural Earth’s file for France, and about the same size as Bhutan. About 2.6 million people live there (Wikidata, 2022).

In area0.97×the size ofBhutan40,400 km² In people1.02×as many people asNamibia2.5 million

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Bhutan
Centre-Val de Loire

Facts

Area, measured	39,400 km²15,200 mi²
Official area	39,200 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure
Share of France	6.2%of the area of the 18 regions
Rank by area	7th of 18regions of France
Population	2.6 millionWikidata, 2022
Density	66 people per km²
Capital	Orléans
Latitude range	46°N to 49°N
Type	RegionFR-CVL

What the numbers say about Centre-Val de Loire

Centre-Val de Loire covers 6.2% of the area of France and ranks 12th of 18 by population, against 7th by area.
It would take 16.2 regions the size of Centre-Val de Loire to cover France.
The largest, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, is 2.16× the size of Centre-Val de Loire; the smallest, Mayotte, is 1.0% of it.
Closest in size within France: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (48,000 km², 1.22×) and Pays de la Loire (32,100 km², 1.22×).
Counted as a country, Centre-Val de Loire would be larger than 104 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 136th by area, between Bhutan (40,400 km²) and the Netherlands (37,100 km²).
With 2.6 million people it would rank 143rd of 238 by population.
Centre-Val de Loire has 66 people per km², about the density of Ecuador, which has 66 per km².
That makes Centre-Val de Loire the 15th most densely populated of the 18 regions, 61% 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 Centre-Val de Loire looks bigger there than it is.
Laid out flat, Centre-Val de Loire stretches about 288 km north to south and 229 km east to west.
Wikidata's official figure of 39,200 km² agrees with our measured area of 39,400 km², to within 2%.

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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 Centre-Val de Loire ranks

Centre-Val de Loire is the 7th largest of the 18 regions of France.

Ranked within France

All 18 regions of France, matched to countries

Compare Centre-Val de Loire

Sources and method

Outline: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain: the 6 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