Country size comparison

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Iceland is about 6 times smaller than Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 17.71% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (2.0 million fewer people live in Iceland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Iceland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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