Country size comparison

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Brunei is about 7 times smaller than Netherlands.

Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, while Brunei is approximately 5,765 sq km, making Brunei 13.88% the size of Netherlands. Meanwhile, the population of Netherlands is ~17.4 million people (16.9 million fewer people live in Brunei).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Netherlands vs. Brunei uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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