Country size comparison

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Kentucky is about 166 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, making Kentucky 0.6% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (137.7 million fewer people live in Kentucky).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Kentucky uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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