When Tanba Province was formed in the seventh century, its territory spanned from the middle and north areas of the present Kyoto prefecture to the east end of the north and middle areas of the present Hyogo prefecture.
7世紀に丹波国が成立したときの領域は、現在の京都府の中部と北部、兵庫県の北部および中部の東辺に及んでいた。