Country size comparison

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District of Columbia is about 4,657 times smaller than Namibia.

Namibia is approximately 824,292 sq km, while District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, making District of Columbia 0.02% the size of Namibia. Meanwhile, the population of Namibia is ~2.7 million people (2.1 million fewer people live in District of Columbia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Namibia vs. District of Columbia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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