Country size comparison

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Italy is about 57 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, making Italy 1.76% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (80.9 million fewer people live in Italy).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Italy uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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