Country size comparison

compared to

Democratic Republic of the Congo is about 7 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Democratic Republic of the Congo is approximately 2,344,858 sq km, making Democratic Republic of the Congo 13.71% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (33.6 million fewer people live in Democratic Republic of the Congo).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Democratic Republic of the Congo uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.