Autonomous community of Spain
Basque Country
Basque Country is an autonomous community of Spain. It covers about 7,060 km² (2,730 mi²), the 14th largest of the 19 autonomous communities and cities in Natural Earth’s file for Spain, and 1.24× the size of Brunei. About 2.2 million people live there (Wikidata, 2024).
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Facts
| Area, measured | 7,060 km²2,730 mi² |
|---|---|
| Official area | 7,230 km²Wikidata · 2.4% above our measure |
| Share of Spain | 1.4%of the area of the 19 autonomous communities and cities |
| Rank by area | 14th of 19autonomous communities and cities of Spain |
| Population | 2.2 millionWikidata, 2024 |
| Density | 316 people per km² |
| Capital | Vitoria-Gasteiz |
| Latitude range | 42°N to 43°N |
| Type | Autonomous communityES-PV |
What the numbers say about Basque Country
- Basque Country covers 1.4% of the area of Spain and ranks 7th of 19 by population, against 14th by area.
- It would take 71.8 autonomous communities and cities the size of Basque Country to cover Spain.
- The largest, Castile and León, is 13.4× the size of Basque Country; the smallest, Melilla, is 0.2% of it.
- Closest in size within Spain: Canary Islands (7,440 km², 1.05×) and Community of Madrid (8,000 km², 1.13×).
- Counted as a country, Basque Country 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 2.2 million people it would rank 146th of 238 by population.
- Basque Country has 316 people per km², about the density of Sri Lanka, which has 323 per km².
- That makes Basque Country the 4th most densely populated of the 19 autonomous communities and cities, 3.30× the average for Spain (96 per km²).
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 43°N is drawn about 1.9× too large in area, so Basque Country looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Basque Country stretches about 106 km north to south and 137 km east to west.
- Our measured 7,060 km² is 2.4% below Wikidata's official figure of 7,230 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.
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.
- ChinaAreaShanghai1.05× · 6,750 km²PeopleTibet61% · 3.6 million (2020)
- United StatesAreaDelaware1.37× · 5,170 km²PeopleNew Mexico1.05× · 2.1 million (2020)
- IndiaAreaAndaman and Nicobar Islands0.99× · 7,110 km²PeopleNagaland1.13× · 2.0 million (2011)
- GermanyAreanone within 2×PeopleSaxony-Anhalt1.04× · 2.1 million (2022)
- FranceAreaCorsica (France)81% · 8,670 km²PeopleCentre-Val de Loire86% · 2.6 million (2022)
- ItalyAreaFriuli-Venezia Giulia0.96× · 7,340 km²PeopleCalabria1.15× · 1.9 million (2019)
- JapanAreaKochi1.00× · 7,090 km²PeopleNiigata1.02× · 2.2 million (2021)
- BrazilAreaFederal District1.22× · 5,790 km²PeopleSergipe1.01× · 2.2 million (2022)
- CanadaAreaPrince Edward Island1.23× · 5,730 km²PeopleManitoba1.66× · 1.3 million (2021)
- AustraliaAreanone within 2×PeopleSouth Australia1.18× · 1.9 million (2024)
- MexicoAreaColima1.20× · 5,880 km²PeopleYucatán0.96× · 2.3 million (2020)
- ThailandAreaSukhothai1.00× · 7,070 km²PeopleNakhon Ratchasima85% · 2.6 million (2020)
Where Basque Country sits in Spain
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Sources and method
- Outline
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain: the 3 provinces of this autonomous community 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, 2024. Spain’s units share the 2024 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