Country size comparison

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Latvia is about 2 times smaller than Alabama.

Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 49.14% the size of Alabama. Meanwhile, the population of Alabama is ~4.8 million people (2.9 million fewer people live in Latvia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Alabama vs. Latvia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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