Country size comparison

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Belarus is about 82 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Belarus is approximately 207,600 sq km, making Belarus 1.21% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~143.5 million people (134.4 million fewer people live in Belarus).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Belarus uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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