Country size comparison

compared to

Alaska is about 12 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, making Alaska 8.66% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (141.3 million fewer people live in Alaska).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Alaska uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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