Country size comparison

compared to

Kuwait is about 2 times smaller than Taiwan.

Taiwan is approximately 35,980 sq km, while Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, making Kuwait 49.52% the size of Taiwan. Meanwhile, the population of Taiwan is ~23.6 million people (20.5 million fewer people live in Kuwait).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Taiwan vs. Kuwait uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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