Autonomous community of Spain
Extremadura
Extremadura is an autonomous community of Spain. It covers about 42,100 km² (16,300 mi²), the 5th largest of the 19 autonomous communities and cities in Natural Earth’s file for Spain, and about the same size as Denmark. About 1.1 million people live there (Wikidata, 2024).
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Facts
| Area, measured | 42,100 km²16,300 mi² |
|---|---|
| Official area | 41,600 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure |
| Share of Spain | 8.3%of the area of the 19 autonomous communities and cities |
| Rank by area | 5th of 19autonomous communities and cities of Spain |
| Population | 1.1 millionWikidata, 2024 |
| Density | 25 people per km² |
| Capital | Mérida |
| Latitude range | 38°N to 40°N |
| Type | Autonomous communityES-EX |
What the numbers say about Extremadura
- Extremadura covers 8.3% of the area of Spain and ranks 13th of 19 by population, against 5th by area.
- It would take 12.0 autonomous communities and cities the size of Extremadura to cover Spain.
- The largest, Castile and León, is 2.25× the size of Extremadura; the smallest, Melilla, is less than 0.1% of it.
- Closest in size within Spain: Aragon (47,600 km², 1.13×) and Catalonia (32,000 km², 1.32×).
- Counted as a country, Extremadura would be larger than 106 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 134th by area, between Denmark (42,700 km²) and Switzerland (41,400 km²).
- With 1.1 million people it would rank 162nd of 238 by population.
- Extremadura has 25 people per km², about the density of Brazil, which has 25 per km².
- That makes Extremadura the 19th most densely populated of the 19 autonomous communities and cities, 26% of the average for Spain (96 per km²).
- Extremadura has 279× the room per person of Melilla, the most crowded of the 19: 25 against 6,977 people per km².
- On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 39°N is drawn about 1.7× too large in area, so Extremadura looks bigger there than it is.
- Laid out flat, Extremadura stretches about 282 km north to south and 249 km east to west.
- Wikidata's official figure of 41,600 km² agrees with our measured area of 42,100 km², to within 2%.
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.
- ChinaAreaNingxia81% · 52,100 km²Peoplenone within 2×
- United StatesAreaWest Virginia67% · 62,700 km²PeopleMontana0.97× · 1.1 million (2020)
- IndiaAreaJammu and Kashmir0.99× · 42,600 km²PeopleChandigarh1.00× · 1.1 million (2011)
- GermanyAreaLower Saxony88% · 47,600 km²PeopleSaarland1.05× · 1.0 million (2022)
- FranceAreaCentre-Val de Loire1.07× · 39,400 km²PeopleRéunion (France)1.19× · 881,000 (2022)
- ItalyAreaSicily (Italy)1.63× · 25,900 km²PeopleTrentino-Alto Adige0.98× · 1.1 million (2019)
- JapanAreaHokkaido (Japan)53% · 78,800 km²PeopleMiyazaki0.99× · 1.1 million (2021)
- BrazilAreaRio de Janeiro0.96× · 44,000 km²PeopleAcre1.27× · 830,000 (2022)
- CanadaAreaNova Scotia76% · 55,100 km²PeopleSaskatchewan0.93× · 1.1 million (2021)
- AustraliaAreaTasmania (Australia)62% · 68,100 km²PeopleSouth Australia56% · 1.9 million (2024)
- MexicoAreaQuintana Roo0.96× · 43,900 km²PeopleCampeche1.13× · 928,000 (2020)
- ThailandAreaChiang Mai1.85× · 22,800 km²PeopleNakhon Sawan1.01× · 1.0 million (2020)
Where Extremadura sits in Spain
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Sources and method
- Outline
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain: the 2 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