Country size comparison

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France is about 6 times smaller than India.

India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, while France is approximately 551,500 sq km, making France 16.78% the size of India. Meanwhile, the population of India is ~1.4 billion people (1.3 billion fewer people live in France).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of India vs. France uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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