Country size comparison

compared to

Kuwait is about 960 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, making Kuwait 0.1% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~143.5 million people (138.6 million fewer people live in Kuwait).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Kuwait uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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