Country size comparison

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District of Columbia is about 18,572 times smaller than India.

India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, while District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, making District of Columbia 0.01% the size of India. Meanwhile, the population of India is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in District of Columbia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of India vs. District of Columbia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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