Country size comparison

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Bulgaria is about 2.7 times bigger than Netherlands.

Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, while Bulgaria is approximately 110,879 sq km, making Bulgaria 167% larger than Netherlands. Meanwhile, the population of Netherlands is ~17.4 million people (10.5 million fewer people live in Bulgaria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Netherlands vs. Bulgaria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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