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Your region, Thomas Hardy\'s Wessex, consisting of:

UK area Population
Bracknell Forest UA 110.3
Isle of Wight UA 138.4
Portsmouth UA 188.5
Reading UA 144.0
Slough UA 117.6
Southampton UA 221.2
West Berkshire UA 144.9
Windsor and Maidenhead UA 136.7
Wokingham UA 152.2
Hampshire 1253.4
Bournemouth UA 163.5
Plymouth UA 244.4
Poole UA 137.0
Swindon UA 182.2
Torbay UA 132.5
Devon 724.7
Dorset 399.9
Somerset 512.5
Wiltshire 444.6
Thomas Hardy's Wessex 5548.5

compares to other regions, states or nations as follows:

German l?nder US states UK nations EU states Spanish Autonomous Regions
  1. Nordrhein-Westfalen (18080.0)
  2. Bayern (12423.0)
  3. Baden-W?rttemberg (10693.0)
  4. Niedersachsen (7993.0)
  5. Hessen (6089.0)
  6. Thomas Hardy's Wessex (5548.5)
    7.
  7. Sachsen (4321.0)
  8. Rheinland-Pfalz (4059.0)
  9. Berlin (3388.0)
  10. Schleswig-Holstein (2823.0)
  11. Brandenburg (2575.0)
  12. Sachsen-Anhalt (2523.0)
  13. Th?ringen (2373.0)
  14. Hamburg (1734.0)
  15. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1732.0)
  16. Saarland (1061.0)
  17. Bremen (663.0)
  1. California (35484.5)
  2. Texas (22118.5)
  3. New York (19190.1)
  4. Florida (17019.1)
  5. Illinois (12653.5)
  6. Pennsylvania (12365.5)
  7. Ohio (11435.8)
  8. Michigan (10080.0)
  9. Georgia (8684.7)
  10. New Jersey (8638.4)
  11. North Carolina (8407.2)
  12. Virginia (7386.3)
  13. Massachusetts (6433.4)
  14. Indiana (6195.6)
  15. Washington (6131.4)
  16. Tennessee (5841.7)
  17. Missouri (5704.5)
  18. Arizona (5580.8)
  19. Thomas Hardy's Wessex (5548.5)
    20.
  20. Maryland (5508.9)
  21. Wisconsin (5472.3)
  22. Minnesota (5059.4)
  23. Colorado (4550.7)
  24. Alabama (4500.8)
  25. Louisiana (4496.3)
  26. South Carolina (4147.2)
  27. Kentucky (4117.8)
  28. Oregon (3559.6)
  29. Oklahoma (3511.5)
  30. Connecticut (3483.4)
  31. Iowa (2944.1)
  32. Mississippi (2881.3)
  33. Arkansas (2725.7)
  34. Kansas (2723.5)
  35. Utah (2351.5)
  36. Nevada (2241.2)
  37. New Mexico (1874.6)
  38. West Virginia (1810.4)
  39. Nebraska (1739.3)
  40. Idaho (1366.3)
  41. Maine (1305.7)
  42. New Hampshire (1287.7)
  43. Hawaii (1257.6)
  44. Rhode Island (1076.2)
  45. Montana (917.6)
  46. Delaware (817.5)
  47. South Dakota (764.3)
  48. Alaska (648.8)
  49. North Dakota (633.8)
  50. Vermont (619.1)
  51. DC (563.4)
  52. Wyoming (501.2)
  1. England (50093.8)
  2. Thomas Hardy's Wessex (5548.5)
    3.
  3. Scotland (5057.0)
  4. Wales (2952.5)
  5. Northern Ireland (1682.9)
  1. Germany (82500.8)
  2. France (60561.2)
  3. UK (60034.5)
  4. Italy (58462.4)
  5. Spain (43038.0)
  6. Poland (38173.8)
  7. Netherlands (16305.5)
  8. Greece (11073.0)
  9. Portugal (10529.3)
  10. Belgium (10445.9)
  11. Czech Republic (10220.6)
  12. Hungary (10097.5)
  13. Sweden (9011.4)
  14. Austria (8206.5)
  15. Thomas Hardy's Wessex (5548.5)
    16.
  16. Denmark (5411.4)
  17. Slovakia (5384.8)
  18. Finland (5236.6)
  19. Ireland (4109.2)
  20. Lithuania (3425.3)
  21. Latvia (2306.4)
  22. Slovenia (1997.6)
  23. Estonia (1347.0)
  24. Cyprus (749.2)
  25. Luxembourg (455.0)
  26. Malta (402.7)
  1. Andalusia (7849.8)
  2. Catalonia (6995.2)
  3. Madrid (5964.1)
  4. Thomas Hardy's Wessex (5548.5)
    5.
  5. Valencia (4692.4)
  6. Galicia (2762.2)
  7. Castile-Le?n (2510.8)
  8. Basque Country (2124.8)
  9. Canary Islands (1968.3)
  10. Castile-La Mancha (1894.7)
  11. Murcia (1335.8)
  12. Aragon (1269.0)
  13. Extremadura (1083.9)
  14. Asturias (1076.6)
  15. Balearic Islands (983.1)
  16. Navarre (593.5)
  17. Cantabria (562.3)
  18. La Rioja (301.1)
  19. Ceuta (75.3)
  20. Melilla (65.5)

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