Country size comparison

compared to

Kuwait is about 2.3 times smaller than Netherlands.

Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, while Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, making Kuwait 42.89% the size of Netherlands. Meanwhile, the population of Netherlands is ~17.4 million people (14.3 million fewer people live in Kuwait).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Netherlands vs. Kuwait uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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