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>>41609965
Many of these sizes are indeterminate, and they'll probably remain so in order to allow for as much space as is needed for future writing.

>>41609895
Significant information includes geographical features and travel times, though the latter is typically going to be adulterated by the varying length of danmaku battles.

Probably the most notable feature would be the Youkai Mountain, which is going to have a significant geographical area, being based on Mount Yatsugatake in southeast Nagano, Japan, stated in mythology to have been ripped down to create the real-world Yatsugatake mountain range and to have been taller than Mount Fuji before that ripping-down occurred (with its original form now being the Youkai mountain). With the Youkai Mountain being comparable to Mount Fuji, its geographical area must also be comparable (~20000 ha, or about the same area as a 14-by-14-km space).

Several locations, including geographically significant ones like the Forest of Magic, the Misty Lake, the Human Village in an apparently fertile valley, the Hill of the Nameless, the Bamboo Forest of the Lost, and the Youkai Tanuki Forest with a flat plains area where the fighting happens, are all places outside of the Youkai Mountain. There also seem to be other nameless hills or even mountains in many of the landscape shots in official print works and (especially fighting) game backgrounds & endings. In fact, Yuuka's Garden of the Sun is stated to be behind a mountain from the human village but still in the heart of Gensokyo.

All of this does add up to Gensokyo being small as a world but still on the order of a couple tens to a few tens of km across (over 20 by 20 km or 400 km², which is still significantly smaller than the metropolitan area of many proper cities, or about 1/38th the size of Nagoya's metropolitan area). However, Gensokyo seems to be largely wilderness until stated otherwise. It could even be an expanding pocket dimension, which is how other locations can arrive from the outside world.

For now, I'd just settle on it being the area around a Fuji-sized mountain with a mess of foothills, all of which would take a few hours to travel across by foot. If you've ever been hiking up a mountain trail, think of how long that took, and that'll give you a decent fraction of the walking distance across Gensokyo.