Country size comparison
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Cook Islands is about 518 times smaller than New York.
New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Cook Islands is approximately 236 sq km, making Cook Islands 0.19% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (19.4 million fewer people live in Cook Islands).
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