Region of France

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Nouvelle-Aquitaine is a region of France. It covers about 85,000 km² (32,800 mi²), the largest of the 18 regions in Natural Earth’s file for France, and about the same size as Austria. About 6.1 million people live there (Wikidata, 2022).

In area1.01×the size ofAustria84,000 km² In people1.00×as many people asTurkmenistan6.1 million

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Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Austria

Facts

Area, measured	85,000 km²32,800 mi²
Official area	84,100 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure
Share of France	13%of the area of the 18 regions
Rank by area	1st of 18regions of France
Population	6.1 millionWikidata, 2022
Density	72 people per km²
Capital	Bordeaux
Latitude range	43°N to 47°N
Type	RegionFR-NAQ

What the numbers say about Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Nouvelle-Aquitaine covers 13% of the area of France and ranks 3rd of 18 by population, against 1st by area.
It would take 7.49 regions the size of Nouvelle-Aquitaine to cover France.
The smallest, Mayotte, is 0.5% of the size of Nouvelle-Aquitaine; the next largest, French Guiana, is 98%.
Closest in size within France: French Guiana (83,200 km², 1.02×) and Occitania (73,500 km², 1.16×).
Counted as a country, Nouvelle-Aquitaine would be larger than 125 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 115th by area, between Azerbaijan (86,200 km²) and Austria (84,000 km²).
With 6.1 million people it would rank 113th of 238 by population.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine has 72 people per km², about the density of Samoa, which has 72 per km².
That makes Nouvelle-Aquitaine the 14th most densely populated of the 18 regions, 67% of the average for France (107 per km²).
On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 45°N is drawn about 2.0× too large in area, so Nouvelle-Aquitaine looks bigger there than it is.
Laid out flat, Nouvelle-Aquitaine stretches about 487 km north to south and 347 km east to west.
Wikidata's official figure of 84,100 km² agrees with our measured area of 85,000 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 Nouvelle-Aquitaine ranks

Nouvelle-Aquitaine is the 1st largest of the 18 regions of France.

Ranked within France

All 18 regions of France, matched to countries

Compare Nouvelle-Aquitaine

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

Full method