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Maine vs Germany Geography
Land area
- Maine has a land area of 30,845 square miles (79,888 km²), while Germany has 134,623 square miles (348,672 km²).
- Germany's land area is 4.4 times (336%) larger than Maine's.
Total area
- Maine: 35,380 square miles (91,634 km²) vs Germany: 138,069 square miles (357,596 km²), including inland and coastal water.
- Germany's total area is 3.9 times (290%) larger than Maine's.
Length
- Maine is 311 miles (501 km) long from north to south; Germany is 531 miles (854 km).
- Germany's north-south length is 1.7 times (71%) longer than Maine's.
Width
- Maine spans 203 miles (327 km) east to west; Germany spans 397 miles (639 km).
- Germany's east-west width is 2.0 times (96%) wider than Maine's.
Highest point
- Maine's highest point is Mount Katahdin at 5,253 feet (1,601 m); Germany's is Zugspitze at 9,718 feet (2,962 m).
- Zugspitze is 4,465 feet higher than Mount Katahdin.
Lowest point
- Maine's lowest point is Atlantic Ocean at 0 feet; Germany's is Neuendorf-Sachsenbande at -13 feet.
- Germany's lowest point is 13 feet lower.
Maine vs Germany Population and History
Population
- Maine has a population of 1,405,012 (2024), while Germany has 83,467,117 (2025).
- Germany's population is 59.4 times larger than Maine's.
Population density
- Maine: 45.6 people per square mile vs Germany: 620.0.
- Germany's population density is 13.6 times higher than Maine's.
Biggest city
- Maine's biggest city is Portland with 69,568 people; Germany's is Berlin with 3,878,100.
- Berlin's population is 55.7 times larger than Portland's.
Largest metro area
- Maine's largest metropolitan area is Portland-South Portland, ME metro area (571,534 people) vs Germany's Berlin metropolitan region (6,200,000).
- Berlin metropolitan region's population is 10.8 times larger than Portland-South Portland, ME metro area's.
History
- Maine: Admitted to the Union on March 15, 1820, as the 23rd state.
- Germany: Unified on January 18, 1871; the current Federal Republic dates from 1949, reunified in 1990.
- In its current form, Maine is the older of the two by 51 years.
Maine vs Germany Economy
GDP
- Maine's GDP is $99.2 billion (2024) vs Germany's $5,050.9 billion.
- Germany's economic output is 50.9 times larger than Maine's.
GDP per capita
- Maine: $70,586 per person vs Germany: $60,496.
- Maine's GDP per capita is 1.2 times (17%) higher than Germany's.
Average income
- Maine: $68,932 vs Germany: $60,200 average income per person (per capita personal income).
- Maine's average income is 1.1 times (15%) higher than Germany's.
Official Websites
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