Country size comparison

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Russia is about 48 times bigger than Germany.

Germany is approximately 357,022 sq km, while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 4,689% larger than Germany. Meanwhile, the population of Germany is ~84.3 million people (57.7 million more people live in Russia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Germany vs. Russia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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