Country size comparison

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Egypt is about 17 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Egypt is approximately 1,001,450 sq km, making Egypt 5.86% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (34.3 million fewer people live in Egypt).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Egypt uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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