Country size comparison

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Bhutan is around the same size as Netherlands.

Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, while Bhutan is approximately 38,394 sq km, making Bhutan 92.42% the size of Netherlands. Meanwhile, the population of Netherlands is ~17.4 million people (16.5 million fewer people live in Bhutan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Netherlands vs. Bhutan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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