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Your region, Wessex, consisting of:

UK area Population
Bath and North East Somerset UA 172.2
Bournemouth UA 163.5
Bristol, City of UA 393.9
North Somerset UA 193.0
Plymouth UA 244.4
Poole UA 137.0
South Gloucestershire UA 247.5
Swindon UA 182.2
Torbay UA 132.5
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 517.5
Devon 724.7
Dorset 399.9
Gloucestershire 572.8
Somerset 512.5
Wiltshire 444.6
Wessex 5038.2

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. Wessex (5038.2)
    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. Maryland (5508.9)
  20. Wisconsin (5472.3)
  21. Minnesota (5059.4)
  22. Wessex (5038.2)
    23.
  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. Scotland (5057.0)
  3. Wessex (5038.2)
    4.
  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. Denmark (5411.4)
  16. Slovakia (5384.8)
  17. Finland (5236.6)
  18. Wessex (5038.2)
    19.
  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. Wessex (5038.2)
    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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