Country size comparison

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Colombia is about 9 times bigger than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Colombia is approximately 1,138,910 sq km, making Colombia 831% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (29.7 million more people live in Colombia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Colombia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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