Country size comparison

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France is about 1.5 times bigger than Germany.

Germany is approximately 357,022 sq km, while France is approximately 551,500 sq km, making France 54% larger than Germany. Meanwhile, the population of Germany is ~84.3 million people (16.0 million fewer people live in France).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Germany vs. France uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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