Country size comparison

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Iceland is about 1.6 times bigger than Latvia.

Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 59% larger than Latvia. Meanwhile, the population of Latvia is ~1.8 million people (1.5 million fewer people live in Iceland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Latvia vs. Iceland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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