Country size comparison

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India is about 3.6 times bigger than Nigeria.

Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, while India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, making India 256% larger than Nigeria. Meanwhile, the population of Nigeria is ~225.1 million people (1.2 billion more people live in India).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nigeria vs. India uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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