Country size comparison

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Ethiopia is about 15 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, making Ethiopia 6.46% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (28.4 million fewer people live in Ethiopia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Ethiopia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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