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Wisconsin vs Germany Geography
Land area
- Wisconsin has a land area of 54,168 square miles (140,294 km²), while Germany has 134,623 square miles (348,672 km²).
- Germany's land area is 2.5 times (149%) larger than Wisconsin's.
Total area
- Wisconsin: 65,497 square miles (169,636 km²) vs Germany: 138,069 square miles (357,596 km²), including inland and coastal water.
- Germany's total area is 2.1 times (111%) larger than Wisconsin's.
Length
- Wisconsin is 368 miles (593 km) long from north to south; Germany is 531 miles (854 km).
- Germany's north-south length is 1.4 times (44%) longer than Wisconsin's.
Width
- Wisconsin spans 323 miles (521 km) east to west; Germany spans 397 miles (639 km).
- Germany's east-west width is 1.2 times (23%) wider than Wisconsin's.
Highest point
- Wisconsin's highest point is Timms Hill at 1,946 feet (593 m); Germany's is Zugspitze at 9,718 feet (2,962 m).
- Zugspitze is 7,772 feet higher than Timms Hill.
Lowest point
- Wisconsin's lowest point is Lake Michigan at 577 feet; Germany's is Neuendorf-Sachsenbande at -13 feet.
- Germany's lowest point is 590 feet lower.
Wisconsin vs Germany Population and History
Population
- Wisconsin has a population of 5,960,975 (2024), while Germany has 83,467,117 (2025).
- Germany's population is 14.0 times larger than Wisconsin's.
Population density
- Wisconsin: 110.0 people per square mile vs Germany: 620.0.
- Germany's population density is 5.6 times (464%) higher than Wisconsin's.
Biggest city
- Wisconsin's biggest city is Milwaukee with 563,531 people; Germany's is Berlin with 3,878,100.
- Berlin's population is 6.9 times (588%) larger than Milwaukee's.
Largest metro area
- Wisconsin's largest metropolitan area is Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro area (3,757,952 people) vs Germany's Berlin metropolitan region (6,200,000).
- Berlin metropolitan region's population is 1.6 times (65%) larger than Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro area's.
History
- Wisconsin: Admitted to the Union on May 29, 1848, as the 30th state.
- Germany: Unified on January 18, 1871; the current Federal Republic dates from 1949, reunified in 1990.
- In its current form, Wisconsin is the older of the two by 23 years.
Wisconsin vs Germany Economy
GDP
- Wisconsin's GDP is $453.3 billion (2024) vs Germany's $5,050.9 billion.
- Germany's economic output is 11.1 times larger than Wisconsin's.
GDP per capita
- Wisconsin: $76,044 per person vs Germany: $60,496.
- Wisconsin's GDP per capita is 1.3 times (26%) higher than Germany's.
Average income
- Wisconsin: $67,755 vs Germany: $60,200 average income per person (per capita personal income).
- Wisconsin's average income is 1.1 times (13%) higher than Germany's.
Official Websites
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