Country size comparison

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France is about 5 times bigger than Bulgaria.

Bulgaria is approximately 110,879 sq km, while France is approximately 551,500 sq km, making France 397% larger than Bulgaria. Meanwhile, the population of Bulgaria is ~6.9 million people (61.4 million more people live in France).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Bulgaria vs. France uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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