Country size comparison

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India is about 5 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, making India 19.23% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (1.2 billion more people live in India).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. India uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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