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Your region, West Mercia, consisting of:

UK area Population
Herefordshire, County of UA 177.8
Stoke-on-Trent UA 238.0
Telford and Wrekin UA 161.0
Shropshire 287.9
Staffordshire 812.6
Warwickshire 525.5
West Midlands (Met County) 2579.2
Worcestershire 552.0
West Mercia 5334.0

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. West Mercia (5334.0)
    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. West Mercia (5334.0)
    22.
  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. West Mercia (5334.0)
    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. Denmark (5411.4)
  16. Slovakia (5384.8)
  17. West Mercia (5334.0)
    18.
  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. West Mercia (5334.0)
    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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