Region of France
Grand Est
Grand Est is a region of France. It covers about 57,400 km² (22,200 mi²), the 5th largest of the 18 regions in Natural Earth’s file for France, and about the same size as Togo. About 5.6 million people live there (Wikidata, 2022).
100 km
- Grand Est
- Togo
Facts
| Area, measured | 57,400 km²22,200 mi² |
|---|---|
| Official area | 57,400 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure |
| Share of France | 9.0%of the area of the 18 regions |
| Rank by area | 5th of 18regions of France |
| Population | 5.6 millionWikidata, 2022 |
| Density | 97 people per km² |
| Capital | Strasbourg |
| Latitude range | 47°N to 50°N |
| Type | RegionFR-GES |
What the numbers say about Grand Est
- Grand Est covers 9.0% of the area of France and ranks 6th of 18 by population, against 5th by area.
- It would take 11.1 regions the size of Grand Est to cover France.
- The largest, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, is 1.48× the size of Grand Est; the smallest, Mayotte, is 0.7% of it.
- Closest in size within France: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (48,000 km², 1.20×) and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (70,900 km², 1.24×).
- Counted as a country, Grand Est would be larger than 114 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 126th by area, between Latvia (64,600 km²) and Togo (56,900 km²).
- With 5.6 million people it would rank 118th of 238 by population.
- Grand Est has 97 people per km², about the density of Ivory Coast, which has 97 per km².
- That makes Grand Est the 12th most densely populated of the 18 regions, 91% of the average for France (107 per km²).
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 49°N is drawn about 2.3× too large in area, so Grand Est looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Grand Est stretches about 304 km north to south and 353 km east to west.
- Wikidata's official figure of 57,400 km² agrees with our measured area of 57,400 km², to within 2%.
About the same size 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.
- ChinaAreaNingxia1.10× · 52,100 km²PeopleQinghai0.94× · 5.9 million (2020)
- United StatesAreaWest Virginia0.91× · 62,700 km²PeopleMinnesota0.97× · 5.7 million (2020)
- IndiaAreaHimachal Pradesh1.04× · 55,400 km²PeopleHimachal Pradesh81% · 6.9 million (2011)
- GermanyAreaLower Saxony1.21× · 47,600 km²PeopleHesse90% · 6.2 million (2022)
- ItalyAreanone within 2×PeopleCampania0.96× · 5.8 million (2019)
- SpainAreaAragon1.20× · 47,600 km²PeopleValencian Community1.05× · 5.3 million (2024)
- JapanAreaHokkaido (Japan)73% · 78,800 km²PeopleHyogo1.02× · 5.5 million (2021)
- BrazilAreaParaíba1.02× · 56,500 km²PeopleMaranhão82% · 6.8 million (2022)
- CanadaAreaNova Scotia1.04× · 55,100 km²PeopleBritish Columbia1.11× · 5.0 million (2021)
- AustraliaAreaTasmania (Australia)84% · 68,100 km²PeopleQueensland0.99× · 5.6 million (2024)
- MexicoAreaCampeche1.00× · 57,100 km²PeopleGuanajuato0.95× · 5.9 million (2015)
- ThailandAreanone within 2×PeopleBangkok0.98× · 5.7 million (2018)
Where Grand Est ranks
Grand Est is the 5th largest of the 18 regions of France.
Compare Grand Est
- Queensland vs Grand Est
- West Virginia vs Grand Est
- Michoacán vs Grand Est
- Sinaloa vs Grand Est
- Grand Est vs Togo
- Grand Est vs Croatia
- Ireland vs Grand Est
- Grand Est vs Denmark
- Norway vs Grand Est
- Finland vs Grand Est
- Tasmania (Australia) vs Grand Est
- Grand Est vs Nova Scotia
- Grand Est vs Ningxia
- Grand Est vs Paraíba
- Grand Est vs Himachal Pradesh
- Grand Est vs Campeche
- Grand Est vs Aragon
- Hokkaido (Japan) vs Grand Est
- Grand Est vs Lower Saxony
- Grand Est vs Hyogo
- Grand Est vs Rio Grande do Norte
- Grand Est vs Uttarakhand
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Sources and method
- Outline
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain: the 10 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