Country size comparison

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France is about 2.3 times smaller than Chad.

Chad is approximately 1,284,000 sq km, while France is approximately 551,500 sq km, making France 42.95% the size of Chad. Meanwhile, the population of Chad is ~18.0 million people (50.3 million more people live in France).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Chad vs. France uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Be 2.7 times more likely to live below the poverty line in Chad
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Moving from France to Chad · UN DESA 2020
1,216 people born in France live in Chad.
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