Country size comparison

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Kentucky is about 12 times smaller than Peru.

Peru is approximately 1,285,216 sq km, while Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, making Kentucky 8.01% the size of Peru. Meanwhile, the population of Peru is ~32.3 million people (27.9 million fewer people live in Kentucky).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Peru vs. Kentucky uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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