Country size comparison

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Germany is about 48 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Germany is approximately 357,022 sq km, making Germany 2.09% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (57.7 million fewer people live in Germany).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Germany uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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