Country size comparison

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Chad is about 4.8 times bigger than New Zealand.

New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Chad is approximately 1,284,000 sq km, making Chad 378% larger than New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (12.9 million more people live in Chad).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New Zealand vs. Chad uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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