Country size comparison

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Egypt is about 8 times bigger than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Egypt is approximately 1,001,450 sq km, making Egypt 719% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~20.0 million people (98.4 million more people live in Egypt).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Egypt uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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