Country size comparison

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Ireland is about 8 times smaller than France.

France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, making Ireland 12.74% the size of France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.3 million people (63.0 million fewer people live in Ireland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of France vs. Ireland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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