Country size comparison

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Albania is about 595 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Albania is approximately 28,748 sq km, making Albania 0.17% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~143.5 million people (141.2 million fewer people live in Albania).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Albania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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