Country size comparison
compared to
Germany is about 28 times smaller than United States.
United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, while Germany is approximately 357,022 sq km, making Germany 3.63% the size of United States. Meanwhile, the population of United States is ~341.8 million people (258.3 million fewer people live in Germany).
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