Country size comparison

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Kuwait is about 12 times smaller than Minnesota.

Minnesota is approximately 206,189 sq km, while Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, making Kuwait 8.64% the size of Minnesota. Meanwhile, the population of Minnesota is ~5.3 million people (2.2 million fewer people live in Kuwait).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Minnesota vs. Kuwait uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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