Country size comparison

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Guyana is about 5 times bigger than Netherlands.

Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, while Guyana is approximately 214,969 sq km, making Guyana 417% larger than Netherlands. Meanwhile, the population of Netherlands is ~17.4 million people (16.6 million fewer people live in Guyana).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Netherlands vs. Guyana uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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