Country size comparison

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Latvia is about 120 times smaller than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 0.83% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~27.6 million people (25.8 million fewer people live in Latvia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Australia vs. Latvia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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