Country size comparison

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Kenya is around the same size as Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Kenya is approximately 580,367 sq km, making Kenya 99.77% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (53.5 million more people live in Kenya).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Kenya uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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