Country size comparison

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Hong Kong is about 63 times smaller than Ireland.

Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, while Hong Kong is approximately 1,108 sq km, making Hong Kong 1.58% the size of Ireland. Meanwhile, the population of Ireland is ~5.3 million people (2.0 million more people live in Hong Kong).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ireland vs. Hong Kong uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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