Germany

Facts

What the numbers say about Germany

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 47.5× the size of Germany.
• Germany ranks 19th of 237 by population but only 64th of 239 by area: it holds more people than its size suggests.
• At 233 people per km², Germany is the 31st most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 51°N is drawn about 2.5× too large in area, so Germany looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Germany's main territory stretches about 849 km north to south and 639 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 358,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 358,000 km², to within 2%.

How Germany measures up

Germany holds 1.6% of the land area and 11% of the people of the 50 countries listed for Europe. In Western Europe it is the 2nd largest of 9.

Where Germany sits

• Germany's centre lies at 51.0°N, 10.4°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 5,680 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 47°N to 55°N, about 870 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Germany had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Germany would have 448.0 million people. It has 83.5 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Germany would have 1.3 million people. It has 83.5 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 25.9 million.

States of Germany

Natural Earth’s file divides Germany into 16 states. Each has its own page, drawn at true size and matched to the countries closest to it in area and in people.

• Bavaria70,000 km²
• Lower Saxony47,600 km²
• Baden-Württemberg36,100 km²
• North Rhine-Westphalia34,500 km²
• Brandenburg30,000 km²
• Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania23,200 km²
• Hesse21,000 km²
• Saxony-Anhalt20,700 km²

All 16 states, matched to countries

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