Country size comparison

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Guyana is about 1.8 times bigger than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Guyana is approximately 214,969 sq km, making Guyana 76% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (18.6 million fewer people live in Guyana).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Guyana uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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