Germany vs Malaysia

Germany is slightly larger, by 8.2% — 357,022 against 329,847 km². Germany is 2.3 times more populous than Malaysia — 83,491,249 against 35,977,838 people.

Side by side

Population density

Germany is 2.1 times more densely populated than Malaysia — 234 against 109 people per km². Density is where area and population interact, and it often reverses the impression the headline figures give — a large country with a small population can feel emptier than a small crowded one by an enormous margin.

Practical differences

• They drive on opposite sides — Germany on the right, Malaysia on the left.
• Different currencies: the Euro and the Malaysian ringgit.
• Different continents — Europe and Asia.

Germany

Germany borders nine countries, more than any other in Europe. The Rhine carries more freight than any other river in Europe. The country has around 25,000 castles and palaces, and the Black Forest and Bavarian Alps mean about a third of it is wooded.

Malaysia

Split between the Malay Peninsula and northern Borneo, separated by about 640 km of the South China Sea. Mount Kinabalu on Borneo is 4,095 m and still rising a few millimetres a year. The rainforest here is estimated at 130 million years old, among the oldest on Earth.

Neutral facts only. Nothing here addresses politics, government, economics or which country is preferable in any respect — population is the one figure that dates, and it carries its year.