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Your region, Mercia, consisting of:

UK area Population
Derby UA 233.7
Leicester UA 285.1
Nottingham UA 275.1
Rutland UA 36.5
Derbyshire 745.5
Leicestershire 623.9
Lincolnshire 673.5
Northamptonshire 646.7
Nottinghamshire 759.7
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
Mercia 9613.7

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. Mercia (9613.7)
    5.
  5. Niedersachsen (7993.0)
  6. Hessen (6089.0)
  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. Mercia (9613.7)
    10.
  10. Georgia (8684.7)
  11. New Jersey (8638.4)
  12. North Carolina (8407.2)
  13. Virginia (7386.3)
  14. Massachusetts (6433.4)
  15. Indiana (6195.6)
  16. Washington (6131.4)
  17. Tennessee (5841.7)
  18. Missouri (5704.5)
  19. Arizona (5580.8)
  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. Mercia (9613.7)
    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. Mercia (9613.7)
    14.
  14. Sweden (9011.4)
  15. Austria (8206.5)
  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. Mercia (9613.7)
    2.
  2. Andalusia (7849.8)
  3. Catalonia (6995.2)
  4. Madrid (5964.1)
  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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