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United States vs Germany Geography
Land area
- United States has a land area of 3,533,467 square miles (9,151,637 km²), while Germany has 134,623 square miles (348,672 km²).
- United States' land area is 26.2 times larger than Germany's.
Total area
- United States: 3,802,784 square miles (9,849,165 km²) vs Germany: 138,069 square miles (357,596 km²), including inland and coastal water.
- United States' total area is 27.5 times larger than Germany's.
Length
- United States is 3,628 miles (5,839 km) long from north to south; Germany is 531 miles (854 km).
- United States' north-south length is 6.8 times (583%) longer than Germany's.
Width
- United States spans 4,824 miles (7,763 km) east to west; Germany spans 397 miles (639 km).
- United States' east-west width is 12.2 times wider than Germany's.
Highest point
- United States's highest point is Denali at 20,308 feet (6,190 m); Germany's is Zugspitze at 9,718 feet (2,962 m).
- Denali is 10,590 feet higher than Zugspitze.
Lowest point
- United States's lowest point is Death Valley at -279 feet; Germany's is Neuendorf-Sachsenbande at -13 feet.
- United States's lowest point is 266 feet lower.
United States vs Germany Population and History
Population
- United States has a population of 340,110,988 (2024), while Germany has 83,467,117 (2025).
- United States' population is 4.1 times (307%) larger than Germany's.
Population density
- United States: 96.3 people per square mile vs Germany: 620.0.
- Germany's population density is 6.4 times (544%) higher than United States'.
Biggest city
- United States's biggest city is New York with 8,478,072 people; Germany's is Berlin with 3,878,100.
- New York's population is 2.2 times (119%) larger than Berlin's.
Largest metro area
- United States's largest metropolitan area is New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area (19,940,274 people) vs Germany's Berlin metropolitan region (6,200,000).
- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area's population is 3.2 times (222%) larger than Berlin metropolitan region's.
History
- United States: Declared independence on July 4, 1776.
- Germany: Unified on January 18, 1871; the current Federal Republic dates from 1949, reunified in 1990.
- In its current form, United States is the older of the two by 95 years.
United States vs Germany Economy
GDP
- United States's GDP is $30,769.7 billion (2025) vs Germany's $5,050.9 billion.
- United States' economic output is 6.1 times (509%) larger than Germany's.
GDP per capita
- United States: $89,599 per person vs Germany: $60,496.
- United States' GDP per capita is 1.5 times (48%) higher than Germany's.
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