Germany and France are two really interesting countries and although they are very close to each other
They each have their own traditions and ways of doing things but throughout time and history
Germany has had much relations with France either for the good or for the bad and today
We are looking at the hypothetical question of what would happen if these two great nations
Decided to shake hands hug it out and be together as one powerful country. Hey everybody. How's it going? Welcome to FTD
Facts, my name is Dave Walpole. And this is a channel where we talk about
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Sometimes we like to compare them and sometimes we like to see what would happen if they are together
Now also guys if some of you guys are from France and some of you guys are from Germany
Just letting you know we've done videos on those countries in the past and man. You guys should check them out
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and they'll also be at the end of the video or in the description box below but
Let's get looking at what would happen if France and Germany became one nation now first of all
Let's start off looking at population
now if we were to take France and Germany and throw them together, they would have a total population of
151 million two hundred and eighty one thousand people based off of
2017 estimates now with that they would rank ninth in the world being in between Russia and
Bangladesh and right now just so you guys know Germany sits at
16th in the world when it comes to population and France sits at the
21st and however with that in mind we should also look at the land size because
Germany and France together would have a total land size of nine hundred and ninety seven thousand eight hundred and forty-seven
kilometers square ranking 31st in the world being between Egypt and Tanzania
And also guys I'm pretty sure that it would make it one of the biggest countries if not the biggest country in
All of Europe well, maybe not Russia
But I mean if you talk in Central Europe for sure pretty sure it might even be bigger than like Finland and Norway
I'm not too sure
so also for this video
I'm not really gonna break down sort of the the cultural differences and the community differences because well a lot of things will change
For example laws might change Queen the two countries for example in Germany and France
They have some very similar laws. Like for example, their smoking laws are very similar
And of course the way they do their health care, they have health insurance for their citizens. It's all kind of the same
There are some differences but for this video we're looking really at numbers and with that in mind
Let's talk about money now putting these two together
They would have a GDP of seven point zero four seven trillion dollars now
keep in mind guys that GDP is not a hundred percent because well first of all,
There's a lot of trading that goes back and forth between France and Germany and we got to take that into consideration
But let's look at some trading. Let's look at exports right now
For example in Germany it exported approximately one point three two trillion dollars in goods and France exported
486 billion now to combine that together it would equal one point eight zero six
Trillion dollars and that would actually make this combined country of Germany and France rank higher for exports than the United States as in
2016 they exported one point four two trillion dollars
but when it comes to the overall you could say it could actually be put at second because well China is like
number one with two point zero six trillion dollars as of
2016 when it comes to its exports and also on this export list
You got to keep in mind that the European Union makes up one point zero nine trillion dollars
But keep in mind France and Germany do export a lot to the European Union
So it's I'm gonna put it four countries as second and also keep in mind when it comes to that
Like I said, there's trading going back and forth
So we got to take that into consideration because these numbers are not completely correct and with that Germany actually
exports about
119 billion dollars of goods to France and France
exports
approximately eighty eight point two
billion dollars to Germany and total the exports of these two countries to each other equals two hundred seven point two billion dollars and
subtracting that from its totals this country makes about one point five nine eight trillion dollars in
Exports and the good thing is that would make this country still sit at second in the world
It would be the United States still but moving on let's look at some of the military aspects
let's take the amount of forces in Germany and the amount of forces in France and
Combine them now one thing at these two countries have in common is they both have big?
militaries with over hundreds of thousands of people in each military
Now combining these two their total military personnel would sit at five hundred and ninety seven
Thousand two hundred and seventy six people again guys
This is just a rough estimate, you know militaries don't like to give out their exact numbers
But there is just kind of a good ballpark figure of that
They're active personnel sits at three hundred and eighty three thousand four hundred and thirty one people for their aircraft strength. They'd be at
1976 with a total of
393 fighters and of that their attack helicopters would sit at 102 now their tanks come in at
838 with a crap-ton of army fighting vehicles
Being at ten thousand nine hundred and fifty now as for their Navy they have about one hundred and ninety nine
craft enough that they have twenty-one frigates five Corvettes
sixteen submarines two destroyers and four aircraft carriers
Which would mean this country actually does have a pretty well
International military because they have aircraft carriers that can go all around the world and they do have a big military
But now let's take a look at some of the Olympic medals and the achievements of this country
for example
Germany has approximately eight hundred and fifty five total medals from the Olympics with
Approximately two hundred and eighty-three of them being gold medals, France
However has eight hundred and forty total medals with two hundred and forty eight gold medals in total
They would have approximately one thousand six hundred and fifty-nine total
Ranking this country at second in the world of total Olympic medals beating Russia
however would be under the United States of America as
For gold they come in also at second at five hundred and thirty one gold medals beating Russia
Which has four hundred and seventy three now
keep in mind guys Germany already actually sits at fourth in the world and
Frances sits at fifth when it comes to overall medals now moving on to other achievements such as Nobel Prizes
we should also note that they are also neck to neck as
Germany ranks third in the world with one hundred and seven Nobel prizes and France comes in at fourth with
68 in total with this new country of France and Germany being United
They would have one hundred and seventy five Nobel prizes beating the UK with one hundred and twenty-nine
Putting this country at second in the world when it comes to countries with Nobel laureates
So there you have it guys that is just a brief look at what would happen if these two countries actually?
Decided to come together and become one big powerful nation. I'm just amazed the population size
I'm amazed at the military size and I'm just gonna say the land size
That would be one big country in all of Europe would be huge again guys
We didn't go into laws and cultural differences that would happen between these two nations
but if you guys have some ideas to let us know down there in the comment section below and you know if this video gets
Like I don't know over 3,000 likes man
Maybe we'll look at a part two and we'll see how culturally these two countries would change
But other than that guys, my name is Dave, Walpole
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But my name is Dave watham and I'll see you guys later. Okay, bye-bye
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