Country size comparison

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Botswana is about 4.8 times bigger than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, making Botswana 376% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (17.0 million fewer people live in Botswana).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Botswana uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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