Country size comparison

compared to

Italy is about 1.2 times smaller than Germany.

Germany is approximately 357,022 sq km, while Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, making Italy 84.4% the size of Germany. Meanwhile, the population of Germany is ~84.3 million people (23.2 million fewer people live in Italy).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Germany vs. Italy uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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