Country size comparison

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District of Columbia is about 6,239 times smaller than Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, making District of Columbia 0.02% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~113.7 million people (113.1 million fewer people live in District of Columbia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ethiopia vs. District of Columbia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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