Region of France

Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur

Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur is a region of France. It covers about 31,300 km² (12,100 mi²), the 10th largest of the 18 regions in Natural Earth’s file for France, and about the same size as Belgium. About 5.2 million people live there (Wikidata, 2022).

In area1.02×the size ofBelgium30,700 km² In people1.00×as many people asCentral African Republic5.2 million

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Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
Belgium

Facts

Area, measured	31,300 km²12,100 mi²
Official area	31,400 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure
Share of France	4.9%of the area of the 18 regions
Rank by area	10th of 18regions of France
Population	5.2 millionWikidata, 2022
Density	165 people per km²
Capital	Marseille
Latitude range	43°N to 45°N
Type	RegionFR-PAC

What the numbers say about Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur

Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur covers 4.9% of the area of France and ranks 7th of 18 by population, against 10th by area.
It would take 20.3 regions the size of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur to cover France.
The largest, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, is 2.71× the size of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur; the smallest, Mayotte, is 1.3% of it.
Closest in size within France: Hauts-de-France (32,000 km², 1.02×) and Pays de la Loire (32,100 km², 1.03×).
Counted as a country, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur would be larger than 100 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 140th by area, between Guinea-Bissau (32,800 km²) and Belgium (30,700 km²).
With 5.2 million people it would rank 122nd of 238 by population.
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur has 165 people per km², about the density of Guatemala, which has 159 per km².
That makes Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur the 7th most densely populated of the 18 regions, 1.54× 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 Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur looks bigger there than it is.
Laid out flat, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur stretches about 238 km north to south and 280 km east to west.
Wikidata's official figure of 31,400 km² agrees with our measured area of 31,300 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 Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur ranks

Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur is the 10th largest of the 18 regions of France.

Ranked within France

All 18 regions of France, matched to countries

Compare Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur

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

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