Country size comparison

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Belgium is about 18 times smaller than France.

France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, making Belgium 5.54% the size of France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.3 million people (56.5 million fewer people live in Belgium).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of France vs. Belgium uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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