State of Germany

Saarland

Saarland is a state of Germany. It covers about 2,650 km² (1,020 mi²), the 13th largest of the 16 states in Natural Earth’s file for Germany, and about the same size as Luxembourg. About 1.0 million people live there (Wikidata, 2022).

In area1.02×the size ofLuxembourg2,610 km² In people1.09×as many people asFiji926,000

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Saarland
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Area, measured	2,650 km²1,020 mi²
Official area	2,570 km²Wikidata · 3.3% below our measure
Share of Germany	0.7%of the area of the 16 states
Rank by area	13th of 16states of Germany
Population	1.0 millionWikidata, 2022 · the census year of every unit
Density	379 people per km²
Capital	Saarbrücken
Latitude range	49°N to 50°N
Type	StateDE-SL

What the numbers say about Saarland

Saarland covers 0.7% of the area of Germany and ranks 15th of 16 by population, against 13th by area.
It would take 135 states the size of Saarland to cover Germany.
Saarland holds 1.2% of the 83.0 million people that Wikidata’s 2022 figures give for the 16 states together: about 1 in 82.
The largest, Bavaria, is 26.4× the size of Saarland; the smallest, Bremen, is 15% of it.
Closest in size within Germany: Berlin (889 km², 2.98×) and Hamburg (774 km², 3.43×).
Counted as a country, Saarland would be larger than 60 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 180th by area, between Samoa (2,780 km²) and Luxembourg (2,610 km²).
With 1.0 million people it would rank 162nd of 238 by population.
Saarland has 379 people per km², about the density of the Philippines, which has 384 per km².
That makes Saarland the 5th most densely populated of the 16 states, 1.63× the average for Germany (232 per km²).
On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 49°N is drawn about 2.4× too large in area, so Saarland looks bigger there than it is.
Laid out flat, Saarland stretches about 58 km north to south and 76 km east to west.
Our measured 2,650 km² is 3.3% above Wikidata's official figure of 2,570 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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Sources and method

Outline: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline, shown rounded. The region’s whole area is counted, every island included.
Official figures: Area, population and capital from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-12
Population: Wikidata, 2022. Germany’s units share the 2022 figures where Wikidata has them; the year is shown wherever the figure is.
Matching: Countries come from Natural Earth’s country file. Places whose status is contested and dependencies are never used as automatic matches. A region under 2,500 km² is matched against the small countries and island nations.
Data built: 2026-11-12

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