Country size comparison

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Botswana is about 13 times smaller than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, making Botswana 7.51% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~26.1 million people (23.8 million fewer people live in Botswana).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Australia vs. Botswana uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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