diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/figure.py b/lib/matplotlib/figure.py
index 3d6f9a7f4c16..089141727189 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/figure.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/figure.py
@@ -3665,8 +3665,8 @@ def figaspect(arg):
 
     Returns
     -------
-    width, height : float
-        The figure size in inches.
+    size : (2,) array
+        The width and height of the figure in inches.
 
     Notes
     -----
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/figure.pyi b/lib/matplotlib/figure.pyi
index 08bf1505532b..064503c91384 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/figure.pyi
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/figure.pyi
@@ -418,4 +418,6 @@ class Figure(FigureBase):
         rect: tuple[float, float, float, float] | None = ...
     ) -> None: ...
 
-def figaspect(arg: float | ArrayLike) -> tuple[float, float]: ...
+def figaspect(
+    arg: float | ArrayLike,
+) -> np.ndarray[tuple[Literal[2]], np.dtype[np.float64]]: ...
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/pyplot.py b/lib/matplotlib/pyplot.py
index 9ef61f335c18..1f50a05a54f7 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/pyplot.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/pyplot.py
@@ -873,7 +873,7 @@ def figure(
     # autoincrement if None, else integer from 1-N
     num: int | str | Figure | SubFigure | None = None,
     # defaults to rc figure.figsize
-    figsize: tuple[float, float] | None = None,
+    figsize: ArrayLike | None = None,
     # defaults to rc figure.dpi
     dpi: float | None = None,
     *,