Country size comparison

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Ethiopia is about 36 times bigger than Belgium.

Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, while Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, making Ethiopia 3,517% larger than Belgium. Meanwhile, the population of Belgium is ~11.8 million people (101.8 million more people live in Ethiopia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Belgium vs. Ethiopia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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