Country size comparison

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Belgium is about 12 times smaller than Germany.

Germany is approximately 357,022 sq km, while Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, making Belgium 8.55% the size of Germany. Meanwhile, the population of Germany is ~84.3 million people (72.5 million fewer people live in Belgium).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Germany vs. Belgium uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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