Country size comparison

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China is about 54 times bigger than Uruguay.

Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 5,346% larger than Uruguay. Meanwhile, the population of Uruguay is ~3.4 million people (1.4 billion more people live in China).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Uruguay vs. China uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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