Country size comparison

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Algeria is about 7 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, making Algeria 13.93% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (97.8 million fewer people live in Algeria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Algeria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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