Country size comparison

compared to

Ireland is about 8 times smaller than Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, making Ireland 12.08% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (2.9 million more people live in Ireland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Ireland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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