Country size comparison

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Belgium is about 560 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, making Belgium 0.18% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (130.2 million fewer people live in Belgium).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Belgium uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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