Country size comparison

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Arkansas is about 127 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Arkansas is approximately 134,856 sq km, making Arkansas 0.79% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (139.1 million fewer people live in Arkansas).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Arkansas uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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