Country size comparison

compared to

Germany is about 1.3 times bigger than New Zealand.

New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Germany is approximately 357,022 sq km, making Germany 33% larger than New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (79.3 million more people live in Germany).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New Zealand vs. Germany uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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