Region of France · also written Occitanie

Occitania

Occitania is a region of France. It covers about 73,500 km² (28,400 mi²), the 3rd largest of the 18 regions in Natural Earth’s file for France, and about the same size as Panama. About 6.1 million people live there (Wikidata, 2022).

In area0.99×the size ofPanama74,500 km² In people1.00×as many people asLebanon6.1 million

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Occitania

Facts

Area, measured	73,500 km²28,400 mi²
Official area	72,700 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure
Share of France	12%of the area of the 18 regions
Rank by area	3rd of 18regions of France
Population	6.1 millionWikidata, 2022
Density	83 people per km²
Capital	Toulouse
Latitude range	42°N to 45°N
Type	RegionFR-OCC

What the numbers say about Occitania

Occitania covers 12% of the area of France and ranks 4th of 18 by population, against 3rd by area.
It would take 8.66 regions the size of Occitania to cover France.
The largest, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, is 1.16× the size of Occitania; the smallest, Mayotte, is 0.5% of it.
Closest in size within France: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (70,900 km², 1.04×) and French Guiana (83,200 km², 1.13×).
Counted as a country, Occitania would be larger than 121 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 119th by area, between Panama (74,500 km²) and Sierra Leone (71,600 km²).
With 6.1 million people it would rank 114th of 238 by population.
Occitania has 83 people per km², about the density of Kenya, which has 83 per km².
That makes Occitania the 13th most densely populated of the 18 regions, 77% of the average for France (107 per km²).
On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 44°N is drawn about 1.9× too large in area, so Occitania looks bigger there than it is.
Laid out flat, Occitania stretches about 302 km north to south and 417 km east to west.
Wikidata's official figure of 72,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 73,500 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 Occitania ranks

Occitania is the 3rd largest of the 18 regions of France.

Ranked within France

All 18 regions of France, matched to countries

Compare Occitania

Sources and method

Outline: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain: the 13 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