Country size comparison

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Belarus is about 5 times bigger than Netherlands.

Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, while Belarus is approximately 207,600 sq km, making Belarus 400% larger than Netherlands. Meanwhile, the population of Netherlands is ~17.4 million people (8.0 million fewer people live in Belarus).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Netherlands vs. Belarus uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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