Country size comparison

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France is about 9 times bigger than Latvia.

Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, while France is approximately 551,500 sq km, making France 754% larger than Latvia. Meanwhile, the population of Latvia is ~1.8 million people (66.9 million more people live in France).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Latvia vs. France uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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