Country size comparison

compared to

Belgium is about 9 times smaller than New Zealand.

New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, making Belgium 11.36% the size of New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (6.8 million more people live in Belgium).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New Zealand vs. Belgium uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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