Country size comparison

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Ethiopia is about 27 times bigger than Netherlands.

Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, while Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, making Ethiopia 2,558% larger than Netherlands. Meanwhile, the population of Netherlands is ~17.4 million people (96.3 million more people live in Ethiopia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Netherlands vs. Ethiopia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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