Country size comparison

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Kuwait is about 6 times smaller than Kentucky.

Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, making Kuwait 17.32% the size of Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (1.3 million fewer people live in Kuwait).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kentucky vs. Kuwait uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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