Country size comparison

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Cameroon is about 3.9 times bigger than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Cameroon is approximately 475,440 sq km, making Cameroon 289% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (9.9 million more people live in Cameroon).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Cameroon uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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