Paraguay is 1.12× the size of Germany

Paraguay covers about 400,000 km² (154,000 mi²) and Germany about 358,000 km² (138,000 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other.

400,000km²Paraguay
358,000km²Germany

200 km

Paraguay
Germany

What fits

Germany is 89% of the size of Paraguay.
Paraguay is larger by 42,200 km² (16,300 mi²), which is 12% of the area of Germany.
Measured in Belgiums: Paraguay is about 13.0, Germany about 11.7.

How they differ

Paraguay is larger, but Germany has the larger population: 83.5 million against 6.8 million, 12.3× as many people.
Per square kilometre that is 233 in Germany against 17 in Paraguay: Germany is 13.7× as densely populated.
Their centres are about 10,600 km apart.
On a standard web map Germany looks larger than Paraguay: Paraguay at 23°S is drawn about 1.2× too large and Germany at 51°N about 2.5×, so the map shows Germany as 1.91× the size of Paraguay, when Paraguay is 1.12× the size of Germany.
Together Paraguay and Germany cover 758,000 km², close to the size of Zambia (752,000 km², 0.7% smaller).
The gap between them, 42,200 km², is about the size of Denmark (42,700 km²).
At Germany's density, Paraguay would have 93.3 million people (it has 6.8 million). At Paraguay's density, Germany would have 6.1 million (it has 83.5 million).
Germany's centre is 74.3° of latitude, about 8,260 km, farther north than Paraguay's.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Paraguay	1.12×
More people	Germany	12.3×
More crowded	Germany	13.7×
Farther north	Germany	74.3° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Germany	2.5× against 1.2×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Paraguay	Germany
Belgium 30,700 km²	13.0×	11.7×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	1.64×	1.47×
Japan 374,000 km²	1.07×	0.96×
France 548,000 km²	0.73×	0.65×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.13×	0.11×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	0.05×	0.04×
United States 9,447,000 km²	0.04×	0.04×
Russia 16,980,000 km²	0.02×	0.02×

Each figure is the place's area divided by the yardstick's.

Side by side

	Paraguay	Germany
Area, main territory	400,000 km²154,000 mi²	358,000 km²138,000 mi²
Population	6.8 millionWikidata, 2017	83.5 millionWikidata, 2025
Density	17 per km²	233 per km²
Official area	407,000 km²Wikidata	358,000 km²Wikidata
Capital	Asunción	Berlin
Latitude range	28°S to 19°S	47°N to 55°N
Continent	South America	Europe

Population: Wikidata 2017 and Wikidata 2025, covering each whole country. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

Wikidata's official figure of 407,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 400,000 km², to within 2%.
Wikidata's official figure of 358,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 358,000 km², to within 2%.

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Sources and method

Outlines: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, public domain
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. Main territory: the largest landmass and every part within 1,000 km of it.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded. Comparisons use main-territory area.
Drawing: Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and the two can be laid over each other.
Data built: 2026-11-11

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