Country size comparison

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Botswana is about 1,952 times bigger than Maldives.

Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, while Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, making Botswana 195,111% larger than Maldives. Meanwhile, the population of Maldives is ~390,164 people (2.0 million more people live in Botswana).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Maldives vs. Botswana uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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