Region of France

Corsica (France)

Corsica (France) is a region of France. It covers about 8,670 km² (3,350 mi²), the 14th largest of the 18 regions in Natural Earth’s file for France, and 87% of the size of Lebanon. About 351,000 people live there (Wikidata, 2022).

In area87%of the size ofLebanon10,000 km² In people0.96×as many people asIceland364,000

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Corsica (France)

Facts

Area, measured	8,670 km²3,350 mi²
Official area	8,680 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure
Share of France	1.4%of the area of the 18 regions
Rank by area	14th of 18regions of France
Population	351,000Wikidata, 2022
Density	41 people per km²
Capital	Ajaccio
Latitude range	41°N to 43°N
Type	RegionFR-20R

What the numbers say about Corsica (France)

Corsica (France) covers 1.4% of the area of France and ranks 16th of 18 by population, against 14th by area.
It would take 73.5 regions the size of Corsica (France) to cover France.
The largest, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, is 9.81× the size of Corsica (France); the smallest, Mayotte, is 4.6% of it.
Closest in size within France: Île-de-France (12,100 km², 1.40×) and Brittany (27,300 km², 3.15×).
Counted as a country, Corsica (France) would be larger than 70 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 170th by area, between Puerto Rico (9,010 km²) and French Southern and Antarctic Lands (6,990 km²).
With 351,000 people it would rank 178th of 238 by population.
Corsica (France) has 41 people per km², about the density of Nicaragua, which has 40 per km².
That makes Corsica (France) the 17th most densely populated of the 18 regions, 38% of the average for France (107 per km²).
On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 42°N is drawn about 1.8× too large in area, so Corsica (France) looks bigger there than it is.
Laid out flat, Corsica (France) stretches about 184 km north to south and 84 km east to west.
Wikidata's official figure of 8,680 km² agrees with our measured area of 8,670 km², to within 2%.

About the same size as

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 Corsica (France) ranks

Corsica (France) is the 14th largest of the 18 regions of France.

Ranked within France

All 18 regions of France, matched to countries

Compare Corsica (France)

Sources and method

Outline: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain: the 2 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