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> and are the biggest country in Europe Err, what? #6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Eu
by toenail 2y ago
> and are the biggest country in Europe
Err, what? #6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_...
- bierjunge 2y agoDepends on the metric you use. If we take nominal GDP instead of area, Germany is #1 in Europe [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Europe_by_GDP_(nominal) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Eu...
- manuelmoreale 2y agoThey’re probably talking GDP
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- Mashimo 2y agoMaybe he means by GDP. That would fit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Europe_by_GDP_(nominal) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Eu...
- krior 2y agoIf you want to be pendantic: the biggest country by population in the EU. I don't think area has any relevance in the context of this discussion.
- audunw 2y agoI'm sure he meant by population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_... Russia and Türkiye are partly in Asia, so not really completely European
- epolanski 2y agoFrance, Portugal, Spain, UK, Netherlands, Denmark too are partially located outside Europe.
- leononame 2y agoWhere I'm from, when you say "biggest" country, it's by default population unless specified otherwise. Area really isn't an important metric here (unless your country is tiny), because the ability of economic and industrial output scales with population more than with area. The most logical comparison would be by GDP here, because we're comparing economy. But for population, which is what I think about when specifying country size without any explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_... Germany is #3 here. You'll see that Russia and Turkey are partly in Europe and bigger than Germany, but since they're mostly in Asia I think most people wouldn't consider them mainly European but rather mainly Asian. There's bound to be some discussion here since it really isn't very clear cut. I'll rephrase to "Germany is at least the third-biggest country in Europe".
- hawski 2y agoOr just the biggest in the EU.
- toenail 2y agoThanks, fwiw, Russia is still #1 by population if you only count population in Europe.
- leononame 2y agoThat's definitely fair. I just blurped it out that way because, at least in my experience, Russia isn't really considered a European country "colloquially". At least where I'm from, people would usually say it's Asian when asked what continent Russia belongs to (if they had to pick one). But I agree it doesn't really hold up to more detailed scrutiny.
- oblio 2y ago> At least where I'm from, people would usually say it's Asian when asked what continent Russia belongs to (if they had to pick one). Heh, that's quite funny, where are you from? :-)
- hawski 2y agoIt may be unintuitive to you, but "the biggest" in many cases means "most populous" and Germany is that - we don't count Russia (because it is not entirely in Europe) or Turkey (for a similar reason) really.
- kgabis 2y agoPopulation of European Russia is ~110 million people so a bit more than Germany.
- blueflow 2y agoEconomy does not come from the geographical size, it comes from the people inhabitating it.