Country size comparison

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Algeria is about 19 times bigger than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, making Algeria 1,848% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (24.8 million more people live in Algeria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Algeria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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