Country size comparison

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Iceland is about 1.7 times smaller than Uruguay.

Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 58.45% the size of Uruguay. Meanwhile, the population of Uruguay is ~3.4 million people (3.0 million fewer people live in Iceland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Uruguay vs. Iceland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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