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Your region, Wessex, 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
Isle of Wight UA 138.4
Portsmouth UA 188.5
Southampton UA 221.2
Hampshire 1253.4
Bath and North East Somerset UA 172.2
Bournemouth UA 163.5
North Somerset UA 193.0
Poole UA 137.0
Swindon UA 182.2
Dorset 399.9
Somerset 512.5
Wiltshire 444.6
Wessex 9340.4

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. Wessex (9340.4)
    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. Wessex (9340.4)
    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. Wessex (9340.4)
    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. Wessex (9340.4)
    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. Wessex (9340.4)
    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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