Country size comparison

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Argentina is about 6 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Argentina is approximately 2,780,400 sq km, making Argentina 16.26% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~143.5 million people (97.7 million fewer people live in Argentina).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Argentina uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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