Country size comparison
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Kazakhstan is about 6 times smaller than Russia.
Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Kazakhstan is approximately 2,724,900 sq km, making Kazakhstan 15.94% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (122.6 million fewer people live in Kazakhstan).
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Moving from Kazakhstan to Russia · UN DESA 2020
2,558,907 people born in Kazakhstan live in Russia.
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