Country size comparison

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Chad is about 2.2 times bigger than Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Chad is approximately 1,284,000 sq km, making Chad 121% larger than Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (15.6 million more people live in Chad).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Chad uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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