Country size comparison
compared to
Alaska is about 8 times bigger than Uruguay.
Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, while Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, making Alaska 741% larger than Uruguay. Meanwhile, the population of Uruguay is ~3.4 million people (2.7 million fewer people live in Alaska).
This to-scale comparison of
Uruguay
vs.
Alaska
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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