Country size comparison

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Germany is about 1.5 times smaller than France.

France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while Germany is approximately 357,022 sq km, making Germany 64.74% the size of France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.3 million people (16.0 million more people live in Germany).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of France vs. Germany uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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