Country size comparison

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Belgium is about 4 times smaller than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, making Belgium 24.97% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~20.0 million people (8.1 million fewer people live in Belgium).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Belgium uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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