Country size comparison

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Kuwait is about 7 times smaller than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, making Kuwait 14.57% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (16.3 million fewer people live in Kuwait).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Kuwait uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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