Country size comparison

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Gabon is about 64 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Gabon is approximately 267,667 sq km, making Gabon 1.57% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (139.7 million fewer people live in Gabon).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Gabon uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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