Country size comparison

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Hong Kong is about 159 times smaller than Uruguay.

Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, while Hong Kong is approximately 1,108 sq km, making Hong Kong 0.63% the size of Uruguay. Meanwhile, the population of Uruguay is ~3.4 million people (3.9 million more people live in Hong Kong).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Uruguay vs. Hong Kong uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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