Country size comparison

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Alabama is about 4.4 times smaller than Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km, making Alabama 22.59% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (2.4 million more people live in Alabama).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Alabama uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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