Country size comparison

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Botswana is about 2.2 times smaller than Chad.

Chad is approximately 1,284,000 sq km, while Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, making Botswana 45.31% the size of Chad. Meanwhile, the population of Chad is ~18.0 million people (15.6 million fewer people live in Botswana).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Chad vs. Botswana uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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